I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
