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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)

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