Quotes about reading
reading sick parent
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family. Lance Loud
reading government years
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Lance Morrow
reading writing thinking
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances. John Taylor Gatto
reading learning want
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.
reading writing school
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.
reading men comfort
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal. John Selden
reading demand should
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. James Joyce
reading writing reason-why
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
reading interesting what-if
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head. James Rollins
reading writing practice
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian. Martin Luther
reading men doe
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
reading thinking dying
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
reading biblical giving
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
reading government world
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world. Mark Strand
reading stories written
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
reading years six
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. Marilyn Hacker
reading insane stories
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. Nick Cave
reading pulse use
It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
reading use biographies
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. Nancy Horan
reading humanity amazed
I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
reading effort able
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. Mortimer Adler
reading challenges way
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
reading tvs
I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself. Missy Franklin
reading learning effort
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. Paulo Freire
reading writing touching
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.
reading government gathering
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. Philip Sidney
reading two focus
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really. Philip Roth
reading noise fiction
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
reading writing names
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. Penelope Lively
reading believe track
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with. Penn Jillette
reading differences numbers
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.
reading writing voice
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion. Paulo Coelho
reading voice quality
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. Marlee Matlin