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Found 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Author: A. C. Benson
| | I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. Author: A. E. van Vogt
| | People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Author: A. J. Liebling
| | Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out. Author: Aaron Spelling
| | In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Author: Abdul Kalam
| | 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. Author: Abraham Lincoln
| | The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Author: Abraham Lincoln
Topics: Best Friend | | I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. Author: Ace Frehley
| | I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin. Author: Ace Frehley
| | I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. Author: Adam Arkin
| | Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. Author: Adam Clarke
| | Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly. Author: Adam Rickitt
| | I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? Author: Adam Sandler
| | Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
| | Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. Author: Adrian Mitchell
| | I like to go to the movies or read. Author: Adriana Lima
| | Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. Author: Adrienne Clarkson
| | I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. Author: Agnes Smedley
| | Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. Author: Agnes Smedley
| | I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. Author: Ahmet Zappa
| | When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. Author: Ahmet Zappa
| | I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
| | My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. Author: Al Capp
| | And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it. Author: Al Franken
| | I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it. Author: Al Jourgensen
| | Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. Author: Al Lewis
| | I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. Author: Al Sharpton
| | Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. Author: Alan Bennett
| | I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. Author: Alan Dean Foster
| | If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. Author: Alan Gorrie
| | If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Author: Alan King
| | All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all. Author: Albert Finney
| | When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy. Author: Albert Finney
| | I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight. Author: Albert King
| | And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read. Author: Albert Maltz
| | By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. Author: Albert Maltz
| | Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Author: Aleister Crowley
| | I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. Author: Alex D. Linz
| | The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Author: Alexander Pope
| | Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
| | When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical. Author: Alia Shawkat
| | I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. Author: Alice Hoffman
| | And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Author: Alice Walker
| | If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom. Author: Alicia Keys
| | But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. Author: Allan Bloom
| | Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. Author: Alvin Lee
| | The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Author: Alvin Toffler
| | He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. Author: Amanda Peet
| | When I read The Whole Nine Yards I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'. Author: Amanda Peet
| | I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry. Author: Amber Tamblyn
| | People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. Author: Amber Tamblyn
| | In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. Author: Amy Lowell
| | I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. Author: Amy Tan
| | The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. Author: Anatole Broyard
| | The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear. Author: Anatoly Chubais
| | To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Author: Andre Gide
| | All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting. Author: Andrea Mitchell
| | Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. Author: Andrew Card
| | And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon. Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
| | I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Author: Andrew Wyeth
| | I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Author: Aneurin Bevan
| | Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Author: Angela Carter
| | In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. Author: Anita Brookner
| | It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. Author: Anita Brookner
| | Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. Author: Anita Desai
| | I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. Author: Anita Diament
| | I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows. Author: Anjelica Huston
| | I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held. Author: Anna Held
| | I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Author: Anna Quindlen
| | If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Author: Anne Frank
| | But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. Author: Anne McCaffrey
| | I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. Author: Anne McCaffrey
| | I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Author: Anne Rice
| | I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. Author: Anne Rice
| | Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Author: Anne Stevenson
| | I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. Author: Anne Stevenson
| | But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer. Author: Anne Tyler
| | I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. Author: Anne Tyler
| | When I read, I'm purely a reader. Author: Anne Tyler
| | When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. Author: Anne Tyler
| | Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Author: Anthony Burgess
| | I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Author: Anthony Hope
| | Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends. Author: Anthony LaPaglia
| | I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally. Author: Antoine Fuqua
| | I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. Author: Antonia Fraser
| | Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask. Author: Anwar Robinson
| | Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. Author: Arnold Bennett
| | Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. Author: A. E. Housman
| | In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. Author: A. E. van Vogt
| | First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck. Author: A. I. Bezzerides
| | Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. Author: A. J. P. Taylor
| | Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. Author: A. R. Ammons
| | I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Author: Aaliyah
| | When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. Author: Abdallah II
| | When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Author: Abraham Lincoln
| | I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. Author: Ace Frehley
| | My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
| | I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
| | I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. Author: Adrian Edmondson
| | Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. Author: Ahmed Yassin
| | The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again. Author: Ahmed Yassin
| | The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more. Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
| | I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. Author: Al Alvarez
| | I'm good at reading people. Author: Al Alvarez
| | You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. Author: Al Smith
| | Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. Author: Alan Dean Foster
| | Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. Author: Alan Dean Foster
| | I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. Author: Alan Dean Foster
| | I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. Author: Alan Dean Foster
| | The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it. Author: Alan Dundes
| | They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. Author: Alan Dundes
| | After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Author: Albert Camus
| | Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Author: Albert Camus
| | The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Author: Albert Camus
| | Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. Author: Albert Camus
| | Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Author: Albert Einstein
| | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Author: Albert Einstein
| | Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Author: Albert Einstein
| | I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready. Author: Albert Finney
| | We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life. Author: Albert Finney
| | Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Author: Albert Schweitzer
| | The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. Author: Albert Schweitzer
| | The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. Author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
| | The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru. Author: Alberto Fujimori
| | The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Author: Aldous Huxley
| | I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave. Author: Aldrich Ames
| | When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement. Author: Aldrich Ames
| | If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Author: Aleister Crowley
| | I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. Author: Alejo Carpentier
| | Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
| | Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die. Author: Alex Chiu
| | When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week. Author: Alex Lifeson
| | Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. Author: Alex North
| | What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! Author: Alexander Herzen
| | As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present. Author: Alexander Kluge
| | Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Author: Alexander Pope
| | For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Author: Alexander Pope
| | Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn
| | I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend. Author: Alexis Arguello
| | When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. Author: Alexis Arguello
| | In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
| | There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
| | If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. Author: Alexis Herman
| | I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. Author: Alfred Eisenstaedt
| | Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
| | The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. Author: Alfred Jarry
| | Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos. Author: Ali A. Saleh
| | I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. Author: Alice Hoffman
| | What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Author: Alice James
| | A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far. Author: Alice Meynell
| | I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. Author: Alice Munro
| | My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Author: Alicia Keys
| | One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. Author: Allen Tate
| | I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. Author: Alonzo Church
| | It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. Author: Alphonsus Liguori
| | The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. Author: Alvin Toffler
| | I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them? Author: Amanda Lear
| | The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. Author: Amanda Peet
| | Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Author: Amelia Barr
| | The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. Author: Amelia Barr
| | One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
| | Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
| | Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. Author: Amos Oz
| | I recommend the art of slow reading. Author: Amos Oz
| | I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. Author: Amy Grant
| | No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. Author: Amy Tan
| | The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. Author: Amy Tan
| | Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Author: Anatole Broyard
| | To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. Author: Anatole Broyard
| | Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. Author: Anatole France
| | The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Author: Anatole France
| | The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Author: Anatole France
| | The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Author: Anatole France
| | War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. Author: Anatole France
| | I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams. Author: Anatoli Boukreev
| | I'm sick of the treadmill. Author: Andrea Martin
| | I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that. Author: Andrea Thompson
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