Quotes about reading
reading winter night
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Italo Calvino
reading giving special
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
reading space elude-us
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman ....
reading sticks keenness
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. Irving Stone
reading people joy
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
reading school sunday
People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed. Jack McDevitt
reading lines one-line
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Jack Prelutsky
reading thinking blood
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves. Jack Nicholson
reading landscape bumps
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Jack Kerouac
reading tubes
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Bill Sienkiewicz
reading eye thinking
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. C. S. Lewis
reading important acquire
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
reading two eating
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
reading knows not-alone
We read to know we are not alone.
reading eye night
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
reading character scripts
Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond. Cathy Moriarty
reading mean idols
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. Carrie Underwood
reading satisfaction given
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else. Bill Blass
reading rocks guy
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! Bill Bruford
reading
I was reading the throw. He would have been out.
reading judging feelings
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by; it is fine and written in a masterly manner. Jean de la Bruyere
reading writing common-sense
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
reading stuff scripts
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with. Jay Hernandez
reading ideas people
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something. Jay Chiat
reading men mcdonalds
A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter. Jay Leno
reading book google
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work. Buzz Aldrin
reading thinking play
I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time. Bryan Cranston
reading writing thinking
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment. Janet Fitch
reading honest praying
Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.
reading mind serious
Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while Janet Evanovich
reading cells talking
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together." Etgar Keret
reading writing fighting
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
reading mean names
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name Ernest Dimnet