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Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Author: George Seferis (1900 - 1971) | Theme: Attitude | Clicks: 73 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Author: Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) | Theme: Poetry | Clicks: 334 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.

Author: Martin Lewis Perl (1927) | Theme: Parents | Clicks: 217 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Author: William Penn (1644 - 1718) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 264 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It makes me believe in fate, in most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Author: Robin Wright Penn (1966) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 135 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It was with Ronnie's band that I first met my old mate Benny Green. He was reading a blue cover Penguin, a classic, the first jazz musician I ever saw reading such a volume.

Author: Michael Parkinson (1935) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Author: Joe Orton (1933 - 1967) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 140 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

Author: George Andrew Olah (1927) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 104 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's mothers laws: One mother is company, two is a psychic reading, three is a hen party, four is a bridge club.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Mother | Clicks: 103 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Author: Mick Jagger (1943) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 118 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Before I went off to North Carolina, I was reading a lot of directors' books, among them my father's autobiography. Because there's a very good chapter about the technicalities of filmmaking in...

Author: Anjelica Huston (1951) | Theme: Film | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The video directors, they're all good, I guess. But they tend... they tend to be real control freaks because they want every shot perfect and they want your performance perfect and they want to...

Author: Anthony Hopkins (1937) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 258 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Theme: Television | Clicks: 271 | Rank: 0 | Fav

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of...

Author: William Godwin (1756-1836) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 93 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Author: Linda Fiorentino (1960) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida...

Author: Maggie Gallagher (1960) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 138 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I am writing it's a very lonely life, and I love getting onto my website and reading the letters from people.

Author: Jackie Collins (1937) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 118 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I consider everywhere I go research, so you will be reading about the Bahamas in a future novel! That's because I like to take my readers with me!

Author: Jackie Collins (1937) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 82 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Author: Michael Chabon (1909) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 102 | Rank: 0 | Fav

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Author: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 84 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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