Quotes about reading
reading greek literature
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. Gilbert Murray
reading book woe
Woe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert
reading mean borrowing
Reading means borrowing. Georg C. Lichtenberg
reading barbarism
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism Georg C. Lichtenberg
reading thinking people
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. Georg C. Lichtenberg
reading habit building
Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading. Gene Luen Yang
reading thinking enemy
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. Gene Luen Yang
reading play too-much
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy! Gary Gygax
reading unattainable magazines
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. Jennifer Aniston
reading awareness conscious
As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading labels and being aware and conscious of what goes in. Jennifer Aniston
reading ignorance track
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track. Jean Henri Fabre
reading library christmas-eve
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. Jean Fritz
reading writing writing-and-reading
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. Gertrude Stein
reading media careers
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. Jessica Pare
reading character giving
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention. Jiddu Krishnamurti
reading opportunity light
Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!" Hu Shih
reading listening news
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is. Howard Schultz
reading thinking trying
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. Ice Cube
reading book shopping
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. Francisco Costa
reading writing wish
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles
reading mean writing
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled. Ian Mcewan
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. Ian Mcewan
reading self elements
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian Mcewan
reading terrorist
I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report. Porter Goss
reading book profound
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Erica Jong
reading school kids
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. Eoin Colfer
reading over-you series
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. Eoin Colfer
reading writing long-ago
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago. Jasper Fforde
reading eggs long
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading. Jasper Fforde
reading good-day house
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. Jason Mewes
reading thinking government
I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antoine] Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation. Hillary Clinton
reading responsibility needs
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY. Herbert Hoover
reading i-hate-you christian-marriage
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. F. Scott Fitzgerald