Reading Quotes · Page 100

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

— Anthony Kiedis

“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.”

— Eleanor Brown

Are you are beautiful as I think you are? Wait a minute, let me put on my reading glasses.

— Cee Lo Green

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

— Italo Calvino

“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

— Winston Churchill

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

— Francis Bacon

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs…

— F. L. Lucas

I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the…

— Paul Bettany

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the…

— Robert Kirkman

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone…

— Stephen King

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other…

— Italo Calvino

I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of…

— Rakim

What you read on the Internet or on anything electronic can be taken away, providing power isn't provided. However, books and the…

— Rian Dalton

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get…

— Myles Garrett

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope…

— George R. R. Martin

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing…

— Richard Powers

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a…

— Yu Hua

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very…

— Margaret Thatcher

I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this…

— Amy Bloom

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great…

— Lemony Snicket

After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by…

— Murray Bookchin

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

— George Eliot

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to…

— Bill Gates

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

— Draymond Green

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

— William Shakespeare

“Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.”

— Patience Johnson

I read two books at a time. One that is heavy and one that makes for light reading.

— Vikram Bhatt

Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

— Samuel Butler

“In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!”

— RuPaul

Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

— Lara Dutta

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

— Manuel Rivas

I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.

— Amor Towles

At 14, I started reading popular scripts, wanted to learn Telugu, read books and improve my language. Then I got married at 15.

— Sowcar Janaki