Quotes about reading
reading writing talent
We often read with as much talent as we write. Ralph Waldo Emerson
reading book eye
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
reading book men
A man is known by the books he reads.
reading library paper
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
reading writing lines
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
reading book books-and-reading
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
reading mean thinking
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important. Scarlett Thomas
reading grandmother way
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying. Lily King
reading people fiction
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
reading mood proper-time
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere Lin Yutang
reading men world
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
reading boxers wonderful
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. Liam Neeson
reading book hostile
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. Orson Scott Card
reading history giving
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.
reading thinking class
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day. Bernie Sanders
reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,
reading reality ecosystems
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife. Richard Dawkins
reading trying wonder
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought a Nobel Laureate ought to be. If you have ever wondered why scientists like Popper, try Medawar's exposition. Actually most Popperian scientists have probably never tried reading anything but Medawar's exposition.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
reading successful judging
Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side. Richard Wyckoff
reading dope drug
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. Richard Wright
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading men independence
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne. Rebecca West
reading boys artist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell Banks
reading bumps geese
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. Russell Crowe
reading worry people
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.
reading book way
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. Roy Wood
reading fiction taxation
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. Rose Macaulay
reading different poetic
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco
reading mean games
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
reading book kids
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. Tyler Hilton