Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Winona Ryder

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Conan O'Brien

There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.

Juno Temple

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Liz Phair

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

Selenis Leyva

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Marilyn Hacker

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Alexandra Stoddard

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

Kristen Wiig

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Robert Pinsky

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

Rainn Wilson

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

Thomas P. Campbell

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

Tavi Gevinson

You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.

$3.33

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

Arthur James Balfour V1: First Earl of Balfour 1848-1905

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

All These Things I've Done

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

The Angel's Game

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

All the Pretty Horses

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Aspects of the Novel

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Aspects of the Novel