Quotes about reading
reading men program
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally. Andrew Carnegie
reading imagine pleasure
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. Amos Oz
reading lucky literature
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
reading situation
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. Ally Condie
reading writing pieces
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room. Anne Tyler
reading leader police
Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing. Angela Davis
reading writing giving
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one. Amy Hempel
reading home taught
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. Amy Grant
reading writing choices
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. Anne Roiphe
reading drs culture
Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science. Anita Borg
reading character hands
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe." Ambrose Bierce
reading government tests
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general. Anthony Kennedy
reading heads-or-tails trying
I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that. Anthony Hopkins
reading writing generations
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. Alice Walker
reading tire paine
I never tire of reading Tom Paine. Abraham Lincoln
reading simple gossip
The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true. Anna Wintour
reading sunday church
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church. Angus T. Jones
reading class church
I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.
reading people worry
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that. Ani Difranco
reading eye winter
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Allen Ginsberg
reading mind novel
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. Alison Pill
reading virginia dostoyevsky
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. Andrea Bocelli
reading thinking way
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
reading character mean
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. Amy Waldman
reading worry
What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,
reading thinking stories
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. Jandy Nelson
reading library pride-and-prejudice-book
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! Jane Austen
reading years two
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
reading mind add
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
reading writing school
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food. Jamie Oliver
reading blow years
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good? Jamie Lee Curtis
reading mean writing
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. Jami Attenberg
reading giving kind
I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.