Quotes about reading
reading writing soul
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Anne Lamott
reading adventure voice
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down! Alane Ferguson
reading sunday technology
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”. Alastair Reynolds
reading wine needs
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read. Albert Bushnell Hart
reading book interesting
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. Albert J. Nock
reading may melancholy
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading. Annie Besant
reading light sight
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer. Annie Dillard
reading mystery ifs
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
reading inspire mind
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?
reading technology library
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. Annabelle Selldorf
reading thinking empathy
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. Claire Danes
reading behavior insight
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
reading world dull
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!' Daniel J. Boorstin
reading our-world world
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
reading book long
A book lives as long as it is unfathomed. D. H. Lawrence
reading garden one-day
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. Conrad Veidt
reading students
I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous. Conrad Aiken
reading focus kind
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. Conor Oberst
reading operations
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. Clifton Fadiman
reading men space
Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down. Clarence Darrow
reading law two
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.
reading tv-shows casting
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading. Danny Strong
reading eye stuff
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. Alexander Pope
reading organization views
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. E. P. Thompson
reading people understanding
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. E. M. Forster
reading men literature
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
reading book function
The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. Douglas Rushkoff
reading looks research
I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first. Donald Cram
reading book white
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them. Donald Barthelme
reading cat may
Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain. Dylan Thomas
reading watches fiction
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed Douglas Adams
reading book pages
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
reading school taught
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. Doris Lessing