Subject: Communication » Reading/Writing (Page 6)

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences are from here to the airport.

(1947 – ) American writer & populist political activist

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

I'm looking for loopholes.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Men are like textbooks: you have to spend a lot of time between the covers to gain a small amount of satisfaction.

I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper; and half never voted for president… one hopes it is the same half.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind; close it and you're right back at the beginning.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

(1885 – 1977) English mathematician

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

I’ve never read an article of clothing.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Write it down in your own handwriting.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do – well, that's Memoirs.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

(1847 – 1922) Scottish scientist, inventor, engineer & innovator