Bob Greene Quotes

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

It's really hard to get enough sleep, so I try to end my days by 9 P.M. so my husband and I have time to watch TV, chat, and then I like to read for at least half an hour before bed, but we have a lot of events, and there are places to go and people to talk to.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

During the season, I'm always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics.

I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.