Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Nikolai Gogol

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

Nikola Tesla

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Nicole Krauss

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Nasser Hussain

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

N. T. Wright

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

Mort Sahl

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

Morris Chestnut

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

John Ruskin

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Mark Leyner

Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

Mario Benedetti

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Batali

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Michael Caine

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Michael Caine

I spent my life in the library reading books.

Mason Cooley

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

Mason Cooley

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Mason Cooley

Reading civilized the inner life.

Mason Cooley

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Mason Cooley

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

Mason Cooley

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Mason Cooley

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Mary Karr

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

Michelle Williams

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Michel Houellebecq

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ...