Quotes about reading
reading writing math
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. Shelley Berman
reading trying television
I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum. Shannyn Sossamon
reading writing mean
We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures. Seymour Papert
reading mean priorities
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group. Lewis Thomas
reading reason talk-to-me
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. Leslie Fiedler
reading editors people
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading. Leslie Jamison
reading college different
I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman. Len Wiseman
reading imagination use
Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. Lemmy Kilmister
reading college numbers
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway. Lee Pace
reading book rereading
Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better. Lawrence Clark Powell
reading our-generation boredom
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
reading emotional thinking
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. Larry David
reading community intellectual
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity. Neil Postman
reading childhood scourge
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
reading writing men
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads Marcus Aurelius
reading writing reading-and-writing
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
reading writing able
Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.
reading giving devices
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. Marco Arment
reading writing laziness
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas a Kempis
reading humble men
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.
reading leader study
All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits. Rudy Giuliani
reading wonderful
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. Sandra Cisneros
reading very-deep moved
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
reading thinking
I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
reading book thinking
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.
reading plague
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
reading long people
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
reading thinking people
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!
reading remember injury
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible Samuel Johnson
reading prove-it prove
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
reading criticism purpose
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
reading writing people
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
reading writing enjoy-life
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.