Quotes about reading
reading better-life
I am a part of everything that I have read. Theodore Roosevelt
reading four littles
I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day. Terry McMillan
reading imagination upset
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett
reading symbolism people
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'? Margaret Mitchell
reading dark sky
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
reading book thinking
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. Margaret Haddix
reading writing men
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey
reading men he-man
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. Michael Foot
reading character preparation
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into. Michael Fassbender
reading party college
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. Michael Bloomberg
reading tired periods
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. Michael Stipe
reading political bills
Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted. Neal Boortz
reading diversity meditation
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life. Natasha Trethewey
reading people joy
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience. Nancy Pearl
reading men literary-merit
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Marcel Proust
reading reality self
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
reading heart reality
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
reading communication miracle
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
reading addiction
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. Joseph Addison
reading adventure able
That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.
reading healing teens
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. Laura Lippman
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 color people
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him. James Salter
reading eye voice
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. James Russell Lowell
reading thinking mind
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.