Reading Quotes - page 77

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book. (Louie Anderson)
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. View quote
Louise Slaughter
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. View quote
Lynda Barry
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional. View quote
Lynn Shelton
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. View quote
LZ Granderson
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. View quote
Laura Lippman
When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book. View quote
Lauren DeStefano
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. View quote
Lauren Mayberry
I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003. View quote
Lauren Miller
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. View quote
Lawrence Halprin
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. (Macklemore)
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! View quote
Mariella Frostrup
"Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it's my whole life. View quote
Mark Leyner
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character. View quote
Mark Waters
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in. View quote
Maggie O'Farrell
The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief. View quote
Mara Wilson
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. View quote
Marcia Gay Harden
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. View quote
Marco Arment
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved. View quote
Marianne Wiggins
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them. (Adan Canto)
It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas. View quote
Bokeem Woodbine
My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about. View quote
Bradley Steven Perry
I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really. View quote
Courtney Gains
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time. View quote
Carol Windley