Quotes about reading
reading rome turkeys
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form. Timothy Leary
reading people leader
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing. Thomas Sowell
reading years challenges
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
reading character white
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. Robert Kirkman
reading work-out firsts
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. Robert B. Laughlin
reading yesterday done
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker
reading army stuff
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
reading thinking may
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way
reading writing trying
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list. Robert Barry
reading form conversation
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
reading people half
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. Ricky Gervais
reading growing rebirth
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. Rickie Lee Jones
reading thoughtful odds
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. Richard Lugar
reading winter night
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. T. S. Eliot
reading exercise healthy
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
reading poetry-is ifs
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
reading persons
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape. Sylvia Browne
reading different novel
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. Sydney Pollack
reading pages next
Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin... Suzanne Weyn
reading talking different
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. Suzanne Somers
reading frustration world
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement. Susan Sontag
reading literature passports
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
reading rereading
Most of my reading is rereading.
reading book waiting
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.
reading factors
Reading have got the good factor Ray Parlour
reading games piano
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. Rashida Jones
reading writing years
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read. Thomas Jefferson
reading healthy care
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
reading citizens looks
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.
reading book benefits
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
reading reflection bears
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.
reading writing mean
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will. Robert Hass
reading shining black
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines. Syd Barrett