Reading Quotes
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The worst thing that happens to you at college if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you will miss two hours of someone reading scintillating anecdotes about Medieval Ireland. The worst thing that happens to you in life if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you might lose your job as a first responder.
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Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.
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I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.
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Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
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I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
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So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.
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I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.
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I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
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I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
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Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry.
