Quotes about reading
reading littles able
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. Vinny Guadagnino
reading hem fifteen
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene! William Cowper
reading mind paper
Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging. Wayne Dyer
reading swimming
I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time. Van Morrison
reading night jazz
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. Van Morrison
reading night kind
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with. Van Morrison
reading believe done
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. Ursula K. Le Guin
reading aunt said
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. Ursula K. Le Guin
reading fake literature
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. Ursula K. Le Guin
reading hero creativity
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won. Twyla Tharp
reading book audience
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. Wally Lamb
reading doing-nothing wildlife
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it. Viswanathan Anand
reading writing iron
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me. Walt Whitman
reading eye two
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading. Saul Bellow
reading forgiving criticism
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader. Sarah Fielding
reading air wings
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. Sarah Fielding
reading dining eating
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers. Sarah Jessica Parker
reading book vogue
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. Sarah Jessica Parker
reading writing thinking
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading. Sarah Dessen
reading writing ideas
Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from. Ronnie Montrose
reading radio computer
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! Rory Bremner
reading character feelings
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer. Roger Ebert
reading apples people
Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society. Roger Ebert
reading library-research rats
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. Roger Ebert
reading three afternoon
I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser. Rod Stewart
reading writing giving
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing. Robin McKinley
reading people able
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. Robert Smith
reading hateful mathematics
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. Robert Quine
reading voice differences
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. Robert Pinsky
reading home reality
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace. Robert Pozen
reading textbooks margins
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. Robert Rauschenberg
reading thinking people
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. Robert Rauschenberg
reading years light
I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production. Sasha Pieterse