Quotes about reading
reading men independence
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne. Rebecca West
reading boys artist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell Banks
reading bumps geese
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. Russell Crowe
reading worry people
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.
reading book way
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. Roy Wood
reading people leader
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing. Thomas Sowell
reading years challenges
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
reading character white
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. Robert Kirkman
reading work-out firsts
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. Robert B. Laughlin
reading yesterday done
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker
reading army stuff
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
reading thinking may
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way
reading form conversation
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. Robert Barry
reading people half
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. Ricky Gervais
reading growing rebirth
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. Rickie Lee Jones
reading thoughtful odds
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. Richard Lugar
reading exercise television-watching
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. Richard M. Nixon
reading wife secret
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed]. Rhys Ifans
reading thinking scripts
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. Rebecca Eaton
reading literature beats
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. Richard Ford
reading feelings literature
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
reading writing
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
reading writing
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
reading somewhere-else
When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else. Rebecca Wells
reading army names
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. Robert Duvall
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. Roald Dahl
reading next wonder
I'm wondering what to read next.
reading views done
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
reading israel doe
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does Rob Bell
reading past years
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. Richard Powers
reading writing eye
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
reading eye appreciate
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. Tracy Chevalier
reading eye two
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading. Saul Bellow