Quotes about reading
reading writing way
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. Tony Kushner
reading development normal
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates. Tony Buzan
reading young
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it. Tony Dungy
reading character chinese
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. Tommy Hilfiger
reading math reality
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German. Tom Waits
reading book play
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. Steve Carell
reading more-knowledge
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. Stephen Hawking
reading writing two
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
reading coffee light
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
reading men maps
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
reading peanuts knows
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. Stephan Pastis
reading people suffering
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal
reading mean democracy
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. Stanley Crouch
reading attachment cities
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm. Stanislaw Lem
reading should sonnet
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan
reading believe thinking
I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. Shenae Grimes
reading creativity air
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. Shakira
reading vices cinema
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. Sergio Leone
reading drug poison
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense. Scott Turow
reading thinking boston
I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound. Stevie Wonder
reading keys pages-turning
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare. Steven Millhauser
reading tablets next
Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now. Steven Pressfield
reading technology perspective
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point. Steven Pinker
reading contemplative-life roots
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves. Sue Monk Kidd
reading biographies groups
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group. Stevie Jackson
reading love-is fans
The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me. Steven Tyler
reading blow origin-of-life
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. Richard Smalley
reading priorities gestalt
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. Richard Serra
reading mind body
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body. Richard Steele
reading book four
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. Richard Grossman
reading winter night
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. T. S. Eliot
reading exercise healthy
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
reading poetry-is ifs
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.