Quotes about reading
reading lamps halos
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. Dean Koontz
reading flames years
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back. Daniel H. Wilson
reading believe library
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9. Daniel Handler
reading bed late
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
reading mind size
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
reading library world
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
reading book finding-yourself
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.
reading book dark
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
reading people wicked
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
reading might ends
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
reading biographers
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. Dan Barber
reading writing thinking
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading. Craig Johnson
reading safe email
According to a new study, our email is not as safe as we thought. How do they know this? They've been reading my email. Craig Ferguson
reading home animal
It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.
reading trouble ifs
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. Claire Messud
reading character alive
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'
reading school thinking
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name. Elizabeth Scott
reading book giving
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Elizabeth Hardwick
reading together pruning
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life. Elizabeth I
reading exercise opportunity
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline. B. C. Forbes
reading science men
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.
reading book men
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Arthur Helps
reading sometimes avoiding
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
reading kids fairy-tale
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. Armie Hammer
reading understanding reader
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. Arlo Guthrie
reading too-much fantasy
Guess I've been reading too much fantasy. Aprilynne Pike
reading writing caught
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. Antonio Banderas
reading writing fighting
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. Ben Stein
reading school kids
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. Barbara Corcoran
reading writing heaven
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! Avi
reading people dry
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. Charles Bukowski
reading book reading-books
Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library. Sydney Smith