Books And Reading Quotes
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. (Quote by - Ethan Coen)
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. (Quote by - Michael Foot)
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. (Quote by - John Locke)
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. (Quote by - Robert Byrne)
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I am a part of everything that I have read. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
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. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. (Quote by - Vernon Lee)
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. (Quote by - Proverb)
The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. (Quote by - Helen Gurley Brown)
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. (Quote by - Jean Rhys)
When a new book is published, read an old one. (Quote by - Samuel Rogers)
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Read much, but not many books. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. (Quote by - Axl Rose)
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. (Quote by - Hugh Newell Jacobsen)
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. (Quote by - Irvin S. Cobb)
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. (Quote by - Maurice Blanchot)
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time. Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. (Quote by - John Witherspoon)
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves..self-discipline with all of them came first. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
The less we know the more we suspect. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. (Quote by - Alain de Botton)
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. (Quote by - Joseph Brodsky)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.". (Quote by - Karl Urban)
Hard writing makes easy reading. (Quote by - Wallace Stegner)
My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. (Quote by - William Osler)
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity. (Quote by - David C. McCullough)
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. (Quote by - S. I. Hayakawa)
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. (Quote by - Albert Jack Nock)
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. (Quote by - Serge Schmemann)
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. (Quote by - Catherine the Great)
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white. (Quote by - William Blake)
Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale. (Quote by - David C. McCullough)
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure. (Quote by - Jane Brody)
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. (Quote by - Jeffrey Archer)
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)
The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. (Quote by - Pablo Neruda)
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. (Quote by - James Earl Jones)
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Quote by - Stephan Grellet)
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. (Quote by - Wilfred Peterson)
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. (Quote by - George Herbert)
All I know is what I read in the papers. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad. (Quote by - Howard Luck Gossage)
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea. (Quote by - Lawrence Clark Powell)
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. (Quote by - Henry James)
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montagu)
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. (Quote by - John Aubrey)
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. (Quote by - Elvis Costello)
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. (Quote by - Austin Phelps)
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. (Quote by - Charles Edwin Carruthers)
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. (Quote by - Christina Aguilera)
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. (Quote by - Spike Milligan)
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?. (Quote by - Eddie Izzard)
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. (Quote by - Louis Macneice)
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. (Quote by - Ben Okri)
You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. (Quote by - Harold Clurman)
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. (Quote by - W. Gladden)
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
A book worth reading is worth buying. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Quote by - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. (Quote by - Fannie Flagg)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. (Quote by - August Hare)
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. (Quote by - E.s. Barrett)
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true. (Quote by - Willie Nelson)
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. (Quote by - Cliff Fadiman)
To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. (Quote by - Charles Scribner Jr.)
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. (Quote by - Kenneth Pachen)
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (Quote by - John Locke)
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
What is reading, but silent conversation. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism. (Quote by - Donald Morgan)
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. (Quote by - William Styron)
Be an explorer..read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play..do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world. (Quote by - Charles Thompson)
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. (Quote by - Robert Chapman)
I get the Reese's candy bar, If you read it, there's an apostrophe. The candy bar is his. I didn't know that. Next time your eating a Reese's and some guy named Reese comes up to you and says let me have that. You better give it to him. I'm sorry Reece, I didn't think I would ever run into you. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Words of love, are works of love. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. (Quote by - Angelina Grimke)
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. (Quote by - Jim Fiebig)
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. (Quote by - William Safire)
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (Quote by - George Macaulay Trevelyan)
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. (Quote by - George Muller)
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A home without books is a body without soul. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world.. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write. (Quote by - Epictetus)
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. (Quote by - B. F. Skinner)
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)
Don't join the book burners.. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. (Quote by - Henry Youngman)
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. (Quote by - Patrica Fripp)
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. (Quote by - Eve Merriam)
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. (Quote by - William Styron)
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. (Quote by - William Penn)
Dory: [Reading a door] Hey, look. "Esc-a-pay". Hey, it's spelled just like escape. (Quote by - Finding Nemo)
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!. (Quote by - Jennifer Aniston)
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'. (Quote by - Nicholas Murray Butler)
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. (Quote by - Carolyn Wells)
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. (Quote by - Sheldon Kopp)
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read. (Quote by - William J. Toms)
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. (Quote by - David Viscott)
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. (Quote by - Daphne Du Maurier)
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
We read to know we are not alone. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
To read the papers and to listen to the news.. one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. (Quote by - Francois Muriac)
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!. (Quote by - Dan Castellaneta)
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. (Quote by - Babe Ruth)
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored. (Quote by - Bill Cartwright)
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. (Quote by - John Andrew Holmes)
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. (Quote by - James T. Farrell)
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole',' he explained. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. (Quote by - Geoffrey Cottrell)
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
While we read history we make history. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. (Quote by - Denis Parsons Burkitt)
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. (Quote by - Enrique Jardiel Poncela)
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. (Quote by - James Bryce)
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible. (Quote by - Whittaker Chambers)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. (Quote by - Mary Schmich)
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. (Quote by - John Berger)
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom. (Quote by - Alicia Keys)
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. (Quote by - Crand Briton)
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. (Quote by - Amanda Cross)
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. (Quote by - Charles Scribner Jr.)
If you believe everything you read, better not read. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. (Quote by - Elaine Gill)
Romances I never read like those I have seen. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
No two persons ever read the same book. (Quote by - Edmund Wilson)
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is -- Venice is better. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
So if I'm inside your head, don't believe what you might have read, you'll see what I might have said, to hear it. Come waste your time with me. (Quote by - Phish)
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. (Quote by - Henry W. Fowler)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. (Quote by - Gail Godwin)
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. (Quote by - Dana Carvey)
