David Starkey Quotes

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

David Starkey

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.

  

  James Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I have the curse of thinking funny!

  

  Adam West
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Thinking
  • Hair
  • Doubt

• It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I mean, I'm lucky because I've slimmed down, but the last thing I was thinking about was losing weight.

  

  Denise Van Outen
  • Thinking

• The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  

  Mark Twain
  • May
  • Die
  • Reading

• I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

  

  John Landis
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Snow

• Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?'

  

  Joachim de Posada
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

  

  Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Important
  • Book
  • Reading

• Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Random

• I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

  

  Mindy Grossman
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Shopping

• It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Why

• I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Truth
  • Hell
  • Colour

• It's an incredible honor, and it's so unlikely. I took a stab at doing this, and it's been extremely well received. ... Phil has gotten an enormous amount of attention, all of it well deserved. I think we've gotten our fair share, and whatever shakes out in terms of Oscar stuff is fine.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Stuff
  • Terms
  • Oscar

• I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

  

  David Starkey
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Needs