All Quotes

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
‐‐ Tom Araya

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
‐‐ Maureen Johnson

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I read very little contemporary anything.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
‐‐ Alan Furst

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
‐‐ Jayne Ann Krentz

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
‐‐ Siegfried Lenz

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
‐‐ Kara Hayward

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen

I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
‐‐ Palaniappan Chidambaram

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam

I realise having work done makes you look older - and everyone's starting to look the same, which is a problem. I've admitted that I had a cyst removed from my lip and had it filled - I had to; the lip was half gone. And I've tried Botox, but I don't do it any more. I'd tell anyone who's going to have it done not to do it.
‐‐ Sophie Monk

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
‐‐ Julian Lennon

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
‐‐ Eve Arnold

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
‐‐ Georg Cantor

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
‐‐ Rajeev Shukla

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
‐‐ Romola Garai

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
‐‐ Betty Cuthbert

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.
‐‐ Steve Truglia

I realised how much the system did not want to change.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
‐‐ David Rubenstein

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
‐‐ David Rudisha

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
‐‐ Ian Rush

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.
‐‐ John Burnside