Reading Quotes

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

I guess there are never enough books.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

We read to know we are not alone.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

You can learn investing by reading books.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.

Reading is good, action is better.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Literature is my Utopia

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.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.