Reading Quotes
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau
One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.
How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.
Happiness is a state of mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly, engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.
A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!
Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.
If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.