Quotes about reading
reading light acting
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reading remembered
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. Samuel Johnson
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 writing trying
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list. Robert Barry
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.
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 thinking crew
I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do? Tori Amos
reading humble progress
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress. Uma Thurman
reading exercise today
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity. Umberto Eco
reading self fire
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward. Rodney Mullen
reading giving interesting
I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting. Roger Ailes
reading believe fate
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part Robin Wright