Broad Reading Quotes

#1. The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire ... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

Teju Cole

#2. If the search for happiness is the underlying quest of our lives, it seems only natural that it should simultaneously be the essential theme to which beauty alludes.

Alain De Botton

#3. I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

#4. Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

Edmund Gwenn

#5. I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

Abbey Lincoln

#6. Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

Peter Kreeft

#7. My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Bill Gates

#8. That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Publilius Syrus

#9. (Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. Reading is a broad church. But it is still a church.

Andy Miller

#11. I'm heir to madness. Vessel of perversion. Your nightmare should you cross me."
Daryl's chin lifted, trembling. "Indeed. We might be sisters then, for I'm the same.

Kim Harrison

#12. Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.

Chris Hadfield

#13. Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5.Fang 6.Fang 7.Fang

James Patterson

#14. Subsidize ... or lend.

Susan George

#15. To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

Louise Penny