Quotes about reading
reading school college
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
reading boys roots
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.
reading cutting thinking
This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
reading eye blood
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. Rainer Maria Rilke
reading book people
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!
reading school home
Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right? Sharon Stone
reading thinking giving
I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about. Sean Astin
reading feelings fundamentals
Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental. Michelle Malkin
reading writing
I started writing as soon as I started reading. Michael Koryta
reading want return
I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. Siegfried Sassoon
reading like-being-alone long
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. Shonda Rhimes
reading presidential biographies
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. Seth Grahame-Smith
reading biographies horror-fans
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
reading next tarantino
The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you. Seth Rogen
reading heart people
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes. Scott Simon
reading directors needs
As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed. Scott Foley
reading tests associates
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point. Seth Godin
reading scripture devotion-to-god
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day. Ravi Zacharias
reading writing creative
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival. Todd Solondz
reading airplane shoes
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. Sloane Crosley
reading mind perception
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. Siri Hustvedt
reading doors imbibing
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
reading might matter
Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives. Simon Van Booy
reading wealth-of-knowledge perpetual
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. Socrates
reading writing
I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading. Michael Scott
reading average years
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc.
reading looks benefits
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. John Owen
reading men evil
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate. John Milton
reading writing men
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.
reading drinking tea
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. Norman Douglas
reading men fire
Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
reading book quality
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. Norman Cousins
reading variables different
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. Norm MacDonald