There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
~By Tom Felton ~
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
~By John Ruskin ~
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
~By Frederik Pohl ~
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
~By David Antin ~
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
~By Fred Savage ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
~By Evan Hunter ~
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
~By Rick Moody ~
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
What is reading, but silent conversation.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
~By Brian May ~
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
~By Rufus Choate ~
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
~By Edward G. Robinson ~
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
~By Groucho Marx ~
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
~By William Godwin ~
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
~By Eric Holder ~
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
~By Peter Lynch ~
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
~By Lord Acton ~
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
~By Paul Mazursky ~
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
~By Norah Jones ~
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.
~By Kim Smith ~
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
~By Max Muller ~
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I do a lot of readings.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
~By Arthur Golden ~
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
~By Taryn Manning ~
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
~By Christopher Darden ~
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
~By Louise Brown ~
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
~By Rod Parsley ~
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
~By Boris Becker ~
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
~By Harry Mathews ~
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
~By Mike Marsh ~
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
~By Alonzo Church ~
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
~By Roy Wood ~
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
~By Breckin Meyer ~
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
~By Louise Brown ~
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
~By Fredric Jameson ~
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.
~By Charlie Hunnam ~
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
~By Tom Hooper ~
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
~By Wally Amos ~
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
~By Steven Wright ~
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
~By Mark Twain ~
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
~By George Byron ~
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
~By John Locke ~
Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
~By Richard Steele ~
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
~By Leo Durocher ~
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
~By Jane Smiley ~
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
~By Christopher Morley ~
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
~By Henry Fonda ~
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
~By Corey Feldman ~
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
~By Bob Edwards ~
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.
~By Gene Barry ~
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.
~By Lawrence Kutner ~
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
~By Rick Moody ~
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
~By Robert Quine ~
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
~By Robertson Davies ~
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
~By Rihanna ~
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