Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein German Physicist More Albert Einstein Quotes 6
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan American President More Ronald Reagan Quotes 1
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. Gene Barry American Actor More Gene Barry Quotes 0
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. David Amram American Composer More David Amram Quotes 0
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W. H. Auden English Poet More W. H. Auden Quotes 0
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. J. M. Coetzee South African Author More J. M. Coetzee Quotes 0
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work. Robert Downey, Jr. American Actor More Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes 0
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan American Dancer More Isadora Duncan Quotes 0
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject. David Gest American Celebrity More David Gest Quotes 0
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France French Novelist More Anatole France Quotes 0
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. William Godwin English Writer More William Godwin Quotes 0
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Benjamin Franklin American Politician More Benjamin Franklin Quotes 0
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. Cornelia Funke German Author More Cornelia Funke Quotes 0
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Danish Author More Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Quotes 0
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson English Author More Samuel Johnson Quotes 0
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey American Author More Lynn Abbey Quotes 0
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it. Dexter S. King More Dexter S. King Quotes 0
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors. Wentworth Miller English Actor More Wentworth Miller Quotes 0
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan Irish Comedian More Spike Milligan Quotes 0
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. Dwight L. Moody American Clergyman More Dwight L. Moody Quotes 0
My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. Karl Philipp Moritz German Author More Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes 0
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. George Murray Canadian Poet More George Murray Quotes 0
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. Andy Rooney Journalist More Andy Rooney Quotes 0