The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Reading 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.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

If you can talk, you can write.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.