Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Ben van Berkel

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Benicio Del Toro

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense?

Benicio Del Toro

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading [Anton] Chekhov and [Charles] Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

August Wilson

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

Audrey Hepburn

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Arnold Bennett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

David Ulevitch

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

David Walton

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

David Walliams

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

David Walliams

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

David Walliams

It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

David Walliams

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

David Walliams

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat I just feel really happy in the water.

David Remnick

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

David Icke

Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.

David Hume

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Ben Whishaw

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Antonio Tabucchi

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Denis Waitley

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Deepika Padukone

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice

Deb Caletti

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?