Quotes about reading
reading writing missing
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. James Agate
reading book writing
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. James A. Michener
reading hands four
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie. Geoffrey Rush
reading water dying
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading. Gary Paulsen
reading messages existence
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. Gary Shteyngart
reading entering consciousness
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
reading character play
When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing. Gary Oldman
reading people asks
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading? Francoise Sagan
reading black savages
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson
reading good-man use
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. George Horace Lorimer
reading men giving
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal. Christopher Buckley
reading tea-leaves crystals
I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. Christine Lagarde
reading people quality
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be. Christian Wiman
reading cutting thinking
'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two. Christian Bale
reading thinking benefits
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures. Chris Ware
reading life-is-hard moments
I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb. Chris Pine
reading years republic
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. Chris Hughes
reading reality race
I remember reading an article about this idea of borderline personality disorder, which is reality producers try the find people who are sort of flamboyantly anti-social in these certain ways, because what happens when you put them around other people is they drag everyone down to their level. I feel like I`m watching this disgraceful race to the bottom. Chris Hayes
reading skills trying
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
reading leaving lost
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
reading new-orleans battle
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic (sic) reading list. George W. Bush
reading cutting government
The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.
reading believe government
I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.
reading humor political
Reading is the basics for all learning.
reading book boredom
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity George Steiner
reading hands evil
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed. George R. R. Martin
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.
reading want bed
Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
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 great-work states
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. Isaac Disraeli
reading book book-banning
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Isaac Asimov