Reading Quotes · Page 111

So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.

— Cass Sunstein

“You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.

— Bernard Hopkins

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

— Jean Cocteau

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

— Julianne Moore

“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”

— Jean Chapman

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’…

— Adele Rose

Here's a message to all the employers out there reading this: if a comedian comes to you having given up comedy and…

— Sean Lock

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which…

— Philip Sidney

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading…

— Anonymous

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my…

— Dave Barry

“I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will…

— Hilary Mantel

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I…

— Lorin Stein

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that…

— Denis Mackail

“She thought about Penny’s stories. There was one about a man who had three wishes and married a swan. If I had…

— Joan Aiken

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written…

— James Fenton

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made…

— Isak Dinesen

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious.…

— Donald McCaig

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.”

— Montaigne

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

— Joseph Monninger

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

— Henry David Thoreau

“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

— Michael Ignatieff

Watch myself on-screen, I'm able to disconnect because it feels like I'm reading a 'Ms. Marvel' comic and watching my friends.

— Iman Vellani

When I was playing for Reading, I got this feeling of being the No 1 - and I want that at Arsenal.

— Emiliano Martinez

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

— Juan Goytisolo

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

— Steven Soderbergh

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley

“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!”

— Kelley Lovelace

“He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.”

— A.S. Byatt

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

— James Russell Lowell