Quotes about reading
reading intelligent experience
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. John Fowles
reading school boys
It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me. Lisa Kleypas
reading stories world
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way. Linda Sue Park
reading athlete training
Reading for writers is like training for athletes.
reading light feelings
There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling. Linda McCartney
reading addiction remember
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. Linda Ronstadt
reading oxygen
Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen. Linda Grant
reading mean thinking
If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more. Linda Fiorentino
reading kind bizarre
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. Lil Wayne
reading circles people
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people. Leo Tolstoy
reading umpires mind
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher
reading wish action
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. Leo Buscaglia
reading night way
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night. Lauren Groff
reading writing goal
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. Lauren Conrad
reading men black
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. Larry Niven
reading book night
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Larry McMurtry
reading thinking america
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. Lewis H. Lapham
reading water swim
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings Joseph Campbell
reading people understanding
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
reading gentleman half
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. John Dryden
reading character years
I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. John Major
reading men knowing
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. John Locke
reading thinking giving
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
reading thinking ideas
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty. John Lennon
reading want should
Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie. Jodie Foster
reading today leisure
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy Buffett
reading simple numbers
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. George M. Whitesides
reading writing trying
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading. Emily Perkins
reading want earth
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? Elizabeth Gilbert
reading talking red-flags
[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.
reading passion years
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading. Judith Martin
reading who-i-am sometimes
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. Josh Holloway
reading character thinking
What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not. Josh Hutcherson