Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dawn

• The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Trouble
  • Young
  • Sixties

• Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Fire

• My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Trouble
  • Iron

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• 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

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Reading

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Reading
  • Writer

• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Precept

• Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Reading
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • House
  • Parents
  • Community

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Song

• If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Pandora's box
  • Jump Out
  • Trojan horse

• I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Reading
  • Trouble
  • Known