Quotes about reading
reading ice fantasy
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. George R. R. Martin
reading stupidity proust
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. Jean Cocteau
reading hands purpose
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. Frederick Douglass
reading scripts hobbies
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway. Felicity Jones
reading writing grace
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. Flannery O'Connor
reading toilets might
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. Henry Miller
reading men done
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.
reading facts magazines
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
reading luxury giving
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
reading son letters
To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. Cassandra Clare
reading brain proof
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. George Eliot
reading mind done
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
reading able hunger
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
reading hands four
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie. Geoffrey Rush
reading water dying
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading. Gary Paulsen
reading messages existence
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. Gary Shteyngart
reading entering consciousness
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
reading character play
When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing. Gary Oldman
reading people asks
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading? Francoise Sagan
reading black savages
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson
reading good-man use
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. George Horace Lorimer
reading men giving
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal. Christopher Buckley
reading tea-leaves crystals
I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. Christine Lagarde
reading people quality
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be. Christian Wiman
reading important half
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. J. B. Priestley
reading intuition diligent
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. J. C. Ryle
reading important next
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
reading men intellectual
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. Isaac Watts
reading care taught
thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
reading men ideas
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
reading struggle way
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things. Isaac Newton
reading thinking literature
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. Isabel Allende
reading dark would-be
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.