Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Bill Gates

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Bill Gates

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Bob Feller

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Bob Geldof

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

William Shakespeare

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it...

Che Guevara

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

Chelsea Handler

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It’s really sad, because that’s what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

Charlie Trotter

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Charles William Eliot

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Charles Lindbergh

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

Aidan Chambers

I cannot live without reading.

Aidan Chambers

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Bob Ney

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Jandy Nelson

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.

Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Jane Austen

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jamie Oliver

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

Jamie Lee Curtis

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Jami Attenberg

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

Jami Attenberg

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

Jason Blum

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Jason Aldean

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Kim Harrison

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Alan Furst

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Al Yankovic

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

Alain de Botton

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Charles R. Swindoll

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

Charles Clark

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

Charles Barkley

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.