Sharmila Tagore Quotes

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Less smoking and more reading.

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.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

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 find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows.

Football has always been my number one thing, but I have other things in my life, like fashion, which is something that has always been in my family.

Whatever your parents do, you get conditioned to that. I remember my dad would put gramophone record, and would sit and read a book. And then once a week, we would go and watch a movie.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter