Reading Quotes

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).

They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

The love of reading can be contagious.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

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.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Man is what he reads.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.