Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

Gary Shteyngart

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Randall Jarrell

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

Henry Hopper

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Cao Yu

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

Daniel Pennac

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Mark Ruffalo

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

Martina McBride

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

Mandy Patinkin

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

Peyton Reed

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Parker Young

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

Richard Flanagan

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Saoirse Ronan

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Andrew Bird

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Branford Marsalis