"People who read are people who dream,..." - Quote by Amy Poehler
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
More by Amy Poehler
“If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.”
“As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.”
“It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.”
More on Reading
“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”
“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”
“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”
More on Connection
“Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.”
“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.”
“Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.”