All Quotes

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.
‐‐ Jason Fuchs

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
‐‐ Carly Rae Jepsen

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Reading should be a repeat performance.
‐‐ John Barton

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
‐‐ Mary Garden

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

Reading taught me how to write.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
‐‐ John Eldredge

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
‐‐ Edmund White

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

Reading 'The Third Sex' feels a bit like flying in a veering helicopter over a rain forest that is disappearing before one's eyes.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Reading was and still is my real joy.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
‐‐ Cynthia Voigt

Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
‐‐ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.
‐‐ Sasha Grey

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.
‐‐ John Darnielle

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
‐‐ John Garamendi

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.
‐‐ Julia Phillips

Reagan cut through irrational federal regulations to allow children to live with their parents, where they could receive care that would cost the taxpayer one-sixth as much as institutional care. By contrast, Obamacare has added thousands of pages of bureaucratic regulations and will cost the federal government untold billions.
‐‐ Edwin Meese

Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
‐‐ Alan K. Simpson

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it's the heartland of America. It's a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it's beginning to pass.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.
‐‐ John Updike

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.
‐‐ Mike Royko

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.
‐‐ Keith Olbermann

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
‐‐ Chris Matthews

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy