Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get it out of your head. And then you go back and you experince something completely different to the thing that you experinced the first tim...
Young Deborah: [to Noodles, reading the Torah] "My beloved is white and ruddy. His skin is as the most fine gold. His cheeks are as a bed of spices." Even though he hasn't washed since last December. "His eyes are as the eyes of doves. His body is as...
Gordon Cooper: [during the lung capacity test] Ha! 93 seconds. Read it and weep [notices Glenn and Carpenter are still exhaling] John Glenn: [Glenn has run out of breath well past Gordo's time] Congratulations, Scott. Darn good. Scott Carpenter: [sha...
If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.
Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don't know at what intervals, and slowly covers my sky with clouds. It begins with an unrest in the heart, with a premonition of anxiety, probably with my dreams at night. People, houses, colo...
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself luc...
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through ...
[Noodles gives Moe a letter to read] Fat Moe: Who's Robert Williams? Noodles: I am. Fat Moe: [reading] "We wish to inform you that following the sale of the Beth Israel Cemetery..." The synagogue sent these out if you wanted to relocate your loved on...
Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
Every reading is a misreading.
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?
