Reading Quotes

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

i really like reading books

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.