Levar Burton Reading Quotes & Sayings

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. — LeVar Burton

I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard. — Ann Brashares

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. — LeVar Burton

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs. — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine. — Dorothy Simpson

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing ... because music is everything. — Ayumi Hamasaki

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days. — LeVar Burton

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time. — M. Ward

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball. — Rich Donnelly

Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. — David Whyte

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that. — Terry Bradshaw

I was vested emotionally in 'Battlestar.' I really loved the thematic things. I don't feel it really got its shot, and I can't blame anyone else; I was at the center of that. — Glen A. Larson

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being — LeVar Burton