Quotes about reading
reading writing way
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. Tony Kushner
reading development normal
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates. Tony Buzan
reading young
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it. Tony Dungy
reading character chinese
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. Tommy Hilfiger
reading math reality
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German. Tom Waits
reading book play
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. Steve Carell
reading more-knowledge
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. Stephen Hawking
reading writing two
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
reading coffee light
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
reading men maps
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
reading peanuts knows
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. Stephan Pastis
reading people suffering
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal
reading mean democracy
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. Stanley Crouch
reading attachment cities
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm. Stanislaw Lem
reading should sonnet
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan
reading believe thinking
I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. Shenae Grimes
reading creativity air
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. Shakira
reading vices cinema
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. Sergio Leone
reading scripture praying
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. Pope John Paul II
reading heart giving
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
reading home careers
I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?' Pink
reading heart talking
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now! Keith Green
reading shanghai
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. Ralph Fiennes
reading creative fuel
Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side. Raine Maida
reading active knows
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. Rachel Miner
reading writing years
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. Rainbow Rowell
reading important ordinary
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone. Terence McKenna
reading interesting important
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day. Teju Cole
reading writing people
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.
reading doe obscurity
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help. Randall Jarrell
reading air faithful
[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
reading world joyful
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world. James Patterson
reading stories love-of-reading
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.