Quotes about reading
reading people giving
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading. Virginia Woolf
reading giving advice
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
reading rubbish action
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading. William Blake
reading writing easy
Hard writing makes easy reading. Wallace Stegner
reading thoughtful thinking
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.... Wallace Stevens
reading tests firsts
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Samuel Richardson
reading effort curiosity
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reading drinking men
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
reading firsts lines
I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem. Salma Hayek
reading surfing three
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. Rudolph A. Marcus
reading small-numbers people
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading. Joseph Epstein
reading mean thoughtful
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
reading sacred serious
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
reading bridges full-potential
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. Kofi Annan
reading being-real want
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do. Kim Smith
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 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.
reading writing talent
We often read with as much talent as we write.