Reading Quotes

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

Reading means borrowing.

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.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.