Quotes about reading
reading writing touching
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world. Paulo Freire
reading government gathering
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. Philip Sidney
reading two focus
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really. Philip Roth
reading noise fiction
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
reading writing names
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. Penelope Lively
reading believe track
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with. Penn Jillette
reading differences numbers
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.
reading writing voice
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion. Paulo Coelho
reading voice quality
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. Marlee Matlin
reading people results
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people. Marianne Moore
reading talking paper
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry. Megyn Kelly
reading character sitting
I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters. Megan Fox
reading book chance
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.
reading book writing
I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me. Max Lucado
reading flower feelings
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading. May Sarton
reading free-diving hiking
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place. Max Irons
reading book people
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. Maureen Corrigan
reading pixels digital
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading. Maureen Dowd
reading men voice
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash. Matthew Tobin Anderson
reading smartphones ipads
From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff. Matt Mullenweg
reading successful people
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
reading brain listening
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. Maynard James Keenan
reading
Right now, we're dominating, ... We're making ad-justments and reading our keys. Dominating. Matt Smith
reading
Reading too much into backlog and bookings can be misleading.
reading
reading is one of those things you can do your whole life. Sonny Perdue
reading rooms staying
Nowadays, we're more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche. Jimmy Page
reading writing reflection
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. Ryszard Kapuscinski
reading enjoy ifs
If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. Hinton
reading achievement world
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way. Ron Rash
reading simple looks
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading. Roland Barthes
reading guests process
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
reading thinking talking
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly). Susan Cain
reading book exercise
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Studs Terkel