Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.
Look, No Limit Texas Hold 'em is a game of reads, deduction and logic, and Allen Cunningham excels in each.
You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.
Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.
Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.
I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.
When you're critical of yourself and your play, you just look at your reads, you look at how fast you can get the ball out.
I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.
For me, it's just staying myself, trusting the process, trusting the game, just going through my reads at the end of the day.
I'm not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. That's that.
Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.
I'm going to play the quarterback position the way coaches install the plays; I'm going to go through the reads just like they install it.