Quotes about reading
reading bathroom
I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom. Dave Barry
reading book vacation
Reading... a vacation for the mind....
reading thinking listening
I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. David Sylvian
reading school kids
When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC. David S. Goyer
reading should-have ideas
I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them. David Myers
reading path taught
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. Carl Sagan
reading writing cosmos
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
reading writing thinking
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities. Chad Harbach
reading people parent
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. Caroline Kennedy
reading imagination soul
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
reading doe quests
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. Camille Paglia
reading rise-of-china rising
I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass. Caitlin Moran
reading school thinking
I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German. Bruno Tonioli
reading biographies thrillers
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
reading jewels testicles
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. Cathleen Schine
reading heart growth
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. Catherynne M. Valente
reading eye autumn
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the awful, wonderful brightness of Fairy colors. Try to smell the hard, pale wood sending up sharp, green smoke into the afternoon. To feel the mellow, golden sun on your skin, more gentle and cozier and more golden than even the light of your favorite reading nook at the close of the day.
reading making-love cooking
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free. Carl Honore
reading perfect genuine
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Marianne Moore
reading reason wells
How well he's read, to reason against reading! William Shakespeare
reading civilization astrology
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash. Kurt Vonnegut
reading here-i-am headlines
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
reading opportunity thinking
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right. Charles William Eliot
reading men light
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air. Charles Lindbergh
reading
I cannot live without reading. Aidan Chambers
reading literature reader
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
reading writing names
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. Bob Ney
reading together study
I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him. Bernhard Langer
reading odds crafts
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you. Edward Hirsch
reading writing people
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.
reading past bottles
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."
reading secret reader
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
reading television-watching intellectual
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.