Quotes about reading
reading pages speed
I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted. Brian Regan
reading mean thinking
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. Breckin Meyer
reading home play
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. Arthur Smith
reading exercise night
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. Arthur Smith
reading mind facts
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading thinking mere
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading trouble hours
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading philosophical thinking
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading trying theory
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. Anton Yelchin
reading kids important
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff. Bruce Jenner
reading ideas iraq
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. Edwidge Danticat
reading believe people
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! Edwidge Danticat
reading writing mean
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive. Edwidge Danticat
reading listening matter
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet. Eckhart Tolle
reading pressure good-things
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve. Dick Cavett
reading party years
I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in. Dennis Hopper
reading ideas lines
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. Dennis Hopper
reading wind tunnels
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. Dennis Miller
reading murder-mysteries people
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. Denise Mina
reading actors reviews
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews. Ebon Moss-Bachrach
reading night play
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights. Elizabeth Meriwether
reading book sun
The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. Elizabeth Olsen
reading people magazines
I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it. Elizabeth Olsen
reading nerd wish
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading. Elizabeth Olsen
reading book bread
He fed his spirit with the bread of books Edwin Markham
reading temptation paper
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
reading people fiction
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. Edgar Rice Burroughs
reading book liberty
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. Benjamin Franklin
reading rainy-day pity
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. Benjamin Franklin
reading ghost-stories stuff
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person. Barbara Mertz
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading simple actors
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary. Arthur Miller
reading drug literacy
Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. Art Spiegelman