Quotes about reading
reading dirty people
... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all. Nora Ephron
reading reality opposites
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
reading bliss better-person
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
reading blow drills
Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me. Nora Roberts
reading relax world
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
reading men voice
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. Nikolai Gogol
reading mean perfection
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. Nikola Tesla
reading privilege steps
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. Nicole Krauss
reading people capable
Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads. Nasser Hussain
reading book unread-books
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
reading years week
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
reading thinking long
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
reading danger overprotective
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. N. T. Wright
reading constitution recreation
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. Mort Sahl
reading book scripts
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. Morris Chestnut
reading actors literature
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors. Elle Macpherson
reading reality rights
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. Eric Holder
reading names laughing
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name. Eric Idle
reading profound detectives
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect. Eric Hoffer
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
reading people results
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people. Marianne Moore