Quotes about reading
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. Karl Kraus
reading writing acting
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
reading book book-reading
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
reading kind wells
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
reading thinking circles
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. Pamela Anderson
reading creative be-creative
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. Oswald Spengler
reading book writing
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave. Oscar Wilde
reading apology waiting
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now. Kanye West
reading accusing-me accusing
Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley Kami Garcia
reading white eight
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. June Lockhart
reading home moon
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.
reading journey discovery
Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. Paul Theroux
reading world knows
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
reading dust soul
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul. Minnie Maddern Fiske
reading mean thinking
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts. Miranda Cosgrove
reading home cutting
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. Kevin J. Anderson
reading hands done
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. Kevin Hart
reading sleep night
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. Kenzaburo Oe
reading reading-experience written
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
reading heart talking
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now! Keith Green
reading shanghai
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. Ralph Fiennes
reading creative fuel
Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side. Raine Maida
reading active knows
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. Rachel Miner
reading writing years
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. Rainbow Rowell
reading batteries
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries. Rahul Dravid
reading two mind
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
reading gardening sparks
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
reading book good-company
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
reading book may
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
reading joy greater
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
reading believe faults
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
reading men literature
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
reading heart men
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.