Quotes of: Readings Keyword

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Laurence Sterne

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

Marco Arment

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Mitch Albom

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

Mario Benedetti

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Marion Bailey

Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.

Maureen Corrigan

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

Mariella Frostrup

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

Marla Gibbs

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth.

Miranda Hart

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

Mo Ibrahim

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

Maira Kalman

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

Mack McLarty

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Melina Mercouri

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Michael Moore

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

Raymond A. Mar

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Rick Reilly

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

Robert Rauschenberg

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Ridley Scott

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Rufus Sewell