Reading Quotes
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The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy-having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train peering over shoulders, bending down to. (Quote by - Nigel Andrew)
Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I am delighted we did it but, at the same time, I can't help but think how close we were to going down. It is sad for Reading and Birmingham - they have all my sympathy tonight. (Quote by - Roy Hodgson)
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)
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. (Quote by - James Agate)
The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. (Quote by - Henry Giles)
After a while you tend to stop reading the papers because some of the stories about you are so silly. (Quote by - Ben Thatcher)
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. (Quote by - Leo Durocher)
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I keep reading between the lies. (Quote by - Goodman Ace)
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. (Quote by - Arthur Christiansen)
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. (Quote by - J K Rowling)
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
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 maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. (Quote by - Frank Crane)
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do. I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. Reading a novel was like doing a show. (Quote by - Heather Donahue)
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. (Quote by - Mary Schmich)
Sylvia was reading in her grandfather's library when the bell tinkled. (Quote by - Meredith Nicholson)
That he that readeth may run over it. (Quote by - Bible)
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. (Quote by - Norah Jones)
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors] (Quote by - Robert Asprin)
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. (Quote by - M H Abrams)
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, 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)
I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music. (Quote by - Leeann Tweeden)
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. (Quote by - Paul Westerberg)
You stop reading the newspapers when you became famous you get some very strange things written about you! (Quote by - Arianna Richards)
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. (Quote by - Lily Allen)
My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
I remember reading that black boys aged nine to fourteen suffered really difficult times at school. (Quote by - Dave Benson Phillips)
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (Quote by - G M Trevelyan)
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. (Quote by - William Godwin)
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)
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Quote by - Claude Arien Helvetius)
What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. (Quote by - Bible)
The Cuban revolution had just taken place, and there was a tremendous discussion going on about it. (Quote by - Henry Flynt)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint (Quote by - Mark Twain)
What is reading, but silent conversation. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Ske was very cool in Reading. Also, the first band I was in played that tune and I had to learn it. I still think the Skatalites are great. (Quote by - Andy Mackay)
I am ashamed. I am shocked at the way we played. We played like a bunch of drunks. (Quote by - Yossi Benayoun)
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. (Quote by - Mary Archer)
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers. (Quote by - Sarah Jessica Parker)
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile. (Quote by - William Cowper)
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. (Quote by - Johannes Kepler)
The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
I've been brought in for the things I can do, and that includes bringing people together rather than splitting them apart. I'm not too worried about what Will Carling thinks. His comment was almost so irrelevant as not to be worth reading. (Quote by - Lawrence Dallaglio)
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. (Quote by - Amy Grant)
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. (Quote by - John Locke)
I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes (Quote by - Nastassja Kinski)
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)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Daddy is reading shakespeare sonnets to the blind and mummy's playing shakespeare to the lepers. (Quote by - Anne Cason)
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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)
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. (Quote by - Moses Hadas)
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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)
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
I was improvising before I was reading music... I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. (Quote by - Pete Fountain)
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. (Quote by - Thomas A Kempis)
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. (Quote by - Tim Vine)
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montagu)
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads. (Quote by - Nasser Hussain)
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (Quote by - John Locke)
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
