Reading Quotes - page 81

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. (Rickie Lee Jones)

Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

Robert K. Massie

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

Raina Telgemeier

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

Robert Pozen

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Robert Quine

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

Robin Wasserman

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

Rocky Graziano

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls.

Rodney Stark

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Ron Silver

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. (Ron Silver)

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Rudolph A. Marcus

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Rufus Sewell

We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.

Rupert Grint

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Rupert Sanders

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Russell Banks

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

Rashida Jones

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

Reese Hoffa

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very bonding.

Rhianna Pratchett

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world. (Richard Dean Anderson)

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

S. E. Hinton

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Seung Sahn

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

Shane West

Don't be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing-and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

Sharon Creech

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