Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.
BonoI don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim CarreyI do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.
Lando NorrisI don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Wayne DyerTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerI have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.
Tom BradyIdeally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark TwainAs for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.
Tom BradyTogether with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope FrancisI always want to create and do things, or draw.
Billie EilishI became a beach bum.
George BestI love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.
RihannaPleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William ShakespeareI just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.
Sunil ChhetriEvery device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.
Dylan ThomasI love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
Angelina JolieThe time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand RussellBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesIt usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Steven WrightI got my buzz from playing.
George BestReading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.
Margaret AtwoodI have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
Mark TwainFrom a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.
Benjamin FranklinIf you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray BradburyNo man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainI don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
Anthony HopkinsI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayThe thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert HooverI had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki MurakamiThrow off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Napoleon BonaparteCycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.
David ByrneI spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
Karl LagerfeldI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonPlaying bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
Bill GatesYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyThere is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Bill GatesI really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill GatesA room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.
Virat KohliIt is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Hermann HesseAll I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
Will RogersIn everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret AtwoodI’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl SaganI read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Bill GatesWhether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. RowlingThere is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel JohnsonI’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
Kevin HartI haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.
Noam ChomskyI don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingNo book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.
Paul AusterBetween the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
Charles BukowskiA person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark TwainRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.
Kurt VonnegutI read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will RogersThere are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.
Jerry Seinfeld‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.
Alice Munro