Reading Quotes

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

Reading means borrowing.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.