Quotes about reading

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don’t wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don’t mind fighting when I really want something.

Marlon Wayans

I’ve always been curious. I keep a list of people I’d love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I’ll read an article about someone I’ve never met and think, ‘I should ask him to lunch!’

Diane Sawyer

The greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.

Robert Frost

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Frederick Douglass

What’s the point of having a library full of books you’ve already read?

Ray Bradbury

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.

Ellen DeGeneres

I’m a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn’t think through adequately. I mean, I don’t type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Ted Turner