Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

John Sharp Williams

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Garrison Keillor

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hilaire Belloc

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

Mary Roach

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.

Bonnie Somerville

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jesse Ventura

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Paul Merton

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

Paul Mooney

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Wael Ghonim

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Dirk Benedict

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

Ross Kemp

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

Zadie Smith

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Glen Duncan

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

Toni Servillo

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

Bob Latta

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.

Bob Peterson