When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
‐‐ George Saunders
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
‐‐ Michael Koryta
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
‐‐ Jim Bishop
When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
‐‐ Paige Craig
When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
‐‐ Michelle Phan
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
‐‐ Stephen Spender
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
‐‐ Thomas Ken
When you read 'author Katharine Holabird, creator of Angelina' and you're not even mentioned, you wince.
‐‐ Helen Craig
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
‐‐ Akhil Sharma
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.
‐‐ David Sedaris
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett
When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.
‐‐ David Ferry
When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.
‐‐ Joe Anderson
When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.
‐‐ Katherine McNamara
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer
When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
‐‐ T. B. Joshua
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.
‐‐ Francis Chan
When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof
When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about.
‐‐ Shane Filan
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
‐‐ Jane Yolen
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff
When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met - how do I top that?
‐‐ Jack O'Brien
When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge
When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.
‐‐ David Gilmour
When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.
‐‐ Michael Pollan
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
‐‐ Dian Fossey
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
‐‐ Dian Fossey
When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.
‐‐ Sophia Bush
When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.
‐‐ Rihanna
When you realize you're alive, you can live life!
‐‐ Chad Michael Murray
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
‐‐ Nora Ephron
When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.
‐‐ Lee Ann Womack
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
‐‐ Della Reese
When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
‐‐ John Oates
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
‐‐ Lee Trevino
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
‐‐ Claire Danes
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
‐‐ Stephen Covey
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
‐‐ Jack Canfield
When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche
When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.
‐‐ Jessica White
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
‐‐ John Lasseter
When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
‐‐ Gene Simmons
When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.
‐‐ Billy Magnussen
When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
‐‐ Fetty Wap
When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers
When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen