Quotes of: Worth-reading Keyword

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Daniel Baldwin

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

Bob Newhart

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Jose Saramago

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

William Ivey Long

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Sinclair Lewis

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Barry Goldwater

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Bill Maher

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

Fiona Shaw

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

Siri Hustvedt

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

Stacy Schiff

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago