Quotes about reading
reading glasses vision
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. Agnes Repplier
reading character incidents
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
reading world too-much
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. Alan Tudyk
reading serious kind
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Charlotte Bronte
reading mind doe
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. Charles Dudley Warner
reading book lambs
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle
reading voice envy
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else. Cheryl Strayed
reading mentor december
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.
reading looks world
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. Charlize Theron
reading book thinking
I cannot sit and think; books think for me. Charles Lamb
reading ears needs
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
reading thinking walking
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.
reading might pages
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. Charlaine Harris
reading bullshit done
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse
reading rivers details
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture. Chang-Rae Lee
reading media people
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. Chaim Potok
reading order alive
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
reading book sometimes
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. Charlie Kaufman
reading ass ifs
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. Charlie Munger
reading ideas habit
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
reading thinking ifs
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
reading magazines levels
...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.
reading self curiosity
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
reading moving secret
The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster. Charles M. Schulz
reading thinking way
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.
reading new-day people
It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people. Bob Saget
reading good-day sunday
Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling by not reading the news.
reading italian years
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it. Bill Mauldin
reading book investing
You can learn investing by reading books. Bill Ackman
reading surprise worth-reading
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading. Bernard Malamud
reading cutting guy
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him. Bill Walton
reading intelligent men
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
reading sweat faster
Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.