Reading Quotes · Page 109

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

— Valerie Jarrett

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

— Isidore of Seville

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

— Ian Mcewan

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

— Jennifer Aniston

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

— Larry Gagosian

“One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

— Kathryn Lasky

My biggest regret is not spending more time reading when I was a teenager. My entire focus was on having fun and…

— Richard Bacon

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more…

— Erich Fromm

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the…

— Luisa Weiss

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even…

— Laurie Helgoe

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or…

— Olly Murs

Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which…

— Arpad Elo

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the…

— Sasha Alexander

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things…

— Mizuki Nomura

I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time…

— Taran Killam

“I think it's because when you hold a book you're also holding a tree in one form or another, and that direct…

— Ali Smith

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I…

— Hiroko Sakai

“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or…

— Kelly G. Wilson

“Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free…

— Martin Gardner

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I…

— Walter Farley

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

— Jodi Picoult

“When she was reading, she didn’t just leave her own life behind, she stepped into someone else’s.”

— Sarah Morgan

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

— John Fowles

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

— Guy Picciotto

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin

“There, in the stable of their own kidnapping, they are reading.”

— Gabriel Fried

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

— William Gaddis

“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move a feet.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.”

— Junot Díaz

“Multa legas facito, perlectis neglege multa: Nan miranda canunt, sed non credenda poetae.”

— Dionysius Cato

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo