Quotes about reading
reading reform three
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own Robert Green Ingersoll
reading may riding
What is the moral? Who rides may read. Rudyard Kipling
reading leader study
All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits. Rudy Giuliani
reading wonderful
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. Sandra Cisneros
reading very-deep moved
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
reading thinking
I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.
reading book thinking
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.
reading plague
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
reading long people
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
reading thinking people
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!
reading remember injury
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible Samuel Johnson
reading prove-it prove
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
reading criticism purpose
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
reading writing people
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
reading writing enjoy-life
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
reading men political
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
reading kids thinking
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. Samantha Bee
reading learning hands
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street Sam Walton
reading taught needed
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. Rulon Gardner
reading passionate youth
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate
reading models courses
I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out. Rufus Sewell
reading literacy born-again
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. Rumer Godden
reading iphone faust
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. Rufus Wainwright
reading writing hey
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious." Roxane Gay
reading writing delusion
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
reading breathing firsts
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent. Robert Jordan
reading labyrinth construction
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… Roberto Bolano
reading writing important
Reading is more important than writing.
reading sadness alive
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
reading book certain
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
reading past thinking
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive Robertson Davies
reading useless digestion
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
reading writing literature
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more. Robert Stone