Quotes about reading
reading home animal
It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading. Craig Ferguson
reading trouble ifs
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. Claire Messud
reading character alive
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'
reading school thinking
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name. Elizabeth Scott
reading book giving
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Elizabeth Hardwick
reading together pruning
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life. Elizabeth I
reading exercise opportunity
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline. B. C. Forbes
reading science men
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.
reading book men
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Arthur Helps
reading sometimes avoiding
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
reading kids fairy-tale
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. Armie Hammer
reading understanding reader
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. Arlo Guthrie
reading too-much fantasy
Guess I've been reading too much fantasy. Aprilynne Pike
reading writing caught
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. Antonio Banderas
reading writing fighting
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. Ben Stein
reading school kids
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. Barbara Corcoran
reading writing heaven
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! Avi
reading thinking news
if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. Bruce Schneier
reading kids government
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
reading champion firsts
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that. Brenda Lee
reading talking listening
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day. Brenda Ueland
reading book dislike
I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them. Brad Feld
reading play eras
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable. Jane Smiley
reading writing two
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
reading tubs sound
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
reading people dry
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. Charles Bukowski
reading book reading-books
Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library. Sydney Smith
reading book furniture
No furniture is so charming as books.
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading historical quality
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Benjamin Disraeli
reading punctuation emphasis
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
reading age delight
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.