Quotes of: Readings Keyword

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Bill Maher

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

Fiona Shaw

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

Siri Hustvedt

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

Stacy Schiff

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Bunker Roy

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Alan Davies

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Clint Eastwood

My fans have been so great. I'll go on fansites and read messages they put, and they all seem like really nice people.

Emily Perkins

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Grant Morrison

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Jim Leach

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Jessye Norman