Quotes about reading
reading addiction
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. Joseph Addison
reading men stories
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
reading space empty
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
reading book exercise
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
reading way another-way
Reading is probably another way of being in a place. Jose Saramago
reading smoking
Less smoking and more reading.
reading finals literature
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them. Jorge Luis Borges
reading thinking should
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
reading hippie writing
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
reading rereading
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
reading book sleep
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
reading love-is band
My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows. Jools Holland
reading teens records
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else. Jonny Greenwood
reading thinking age
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. Jonathan Swift
reading museums rooms
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum. Kenneth Clark
reading games video
I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics. Kellan Lutz
reading old-things antonio
Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing? Kelley Armstrong
reading passion storytelling
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
reading men evil
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
reading literature decline
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
reading book my-favorite
My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading. Joe Lhota
reading transition culture
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. Jo Nesbo
reading political use
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper. Jo Brand
reading thinking people
I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
reading superstar
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar. James Taylor
reading tired home
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong? James Patterson
reading world joyful
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
reading stories love-of-reading
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
reading thinking best-things
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
reading class amusement
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. James Madison
reading growth analysis
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading. Nouriel Roubini
reading hollywood looks
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! Emile Hirsch
reading feminist literature
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. Emilie Autumn