Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Wendell Berry

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Walter Mosley

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Vladimir Nabokov

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Vladimir Nabokov

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Wolfgang Tillmans

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

Wolf Blitzer

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

William Osler

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Zig Ziglar

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

Zoe Saldana

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

Zelda Fitzgerald

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

I have read about 200-250 pages. I am still reading it.

I know the reading scores go up because I do that.

I keep reading all over forums that we're going to make a 360 version of BLACK, and it's just not true.

Neal Boortz

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

Natasha Trethewey

I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.

Nancy Pearl

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.

Marcel Proust

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Marcel Proust

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

Marcel Proust

The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Joseph Addison

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

Joseph Addison

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Joseph Addison

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Joseph Addison

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Jose Saramago

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Less smoking and more reading.

Jorge Luis Borges

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.