Quotes about reading
reading kids writing
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing. George R. R. Martin
reading want bed
Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
reading great-things
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
reading men ice
The man who never reads lives only one.
reading ice fantasy
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..
reading stupidity proust
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. Jean Cocteau
reading hands purpose
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. Frederick Douglass
reading scripts hobbies
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway. Felicity Jones
reading justice decision
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. Felix Frankfurter
reading portraits world
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. Fay Godwin
reading night hair
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know. Fanny Kemble
reading school office
One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan Evanna Lynch
reading two messages
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place. Francis Crick
reading school class
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class Francine Prose
reading elements eating-alone
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.
reading sight temptation
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
reading men
Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon
reading writing men
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
reading house requirements
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Ernest Istook
reading cutting whales
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. Florence King
reading writing grace
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. Flannery O'Connor
reading toilets might
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. Henry Miller
reading men done
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.
reading facts magazines
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
reading luxury giving
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
reading son letters
To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. Cassandra Clare
reading brain proof
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. George Eliot
reading mind done
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
reading able hunger
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
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