Reading Quotes

Reading civilized the inner life.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.

I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue!

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.