Quotes about reading
reading class church
I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class. Angus T. Jones
reading people worry
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that. Ani Difranco
reading eye winter
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Allen Ginsberg
reading mind novel
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. Alison Pill
reading virginia dostoyevsky
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. Andrea Bocelli
reading thinking way
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
reading three able
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did. Adora Svitak
reading historical mind
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will. Adam Weishaupt
reading book insomnia
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. Adam Young
reading pirate magazines
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship Adam Gopnik
reading giving taste
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. Abraham Lincoln
reading house guy
I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house? Alex Pettyfer
reading discipline mind
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley
reading social contracts
reading is at the beginning of the social contract Alberto Manguel
reading progression reader
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
reading excellence occupation
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
reading crafts crowds
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
reading self lust
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.
reading
One can transform a place by reading in it.
reading needs share
I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
reading mind hemisphere
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.
reading breathing essentials
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
reading responsibility crafts
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
reading letters reader
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
reading writing
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
reading firsts innocence
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
reading writing looks
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. Albert Einstein
reading successful thinking
And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim. Alfred Molina
reading ideas long
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves. Alfred Kazin
reading biblical bible-reading
Bible reading is an education in itself. Alfred Lord Tennyson
reading thinking self
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley
reading book study
The proper study of mankind is books.
reading summer time
We'd like to have it in time for the summer reading program." ()