Reading Quotes · Page 124

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

— Michael Seibel

My goal with any reading is always to give the client what they are meant to hear.

— Tyler Henry

“Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.”

— Sarah Johnson

I had a few teams after me, but when I heard Reading were interested I didn't think about other teams.

— Reece Oxford

“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.”

— Paul Valéry

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

— J. K. Rowling

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences…

— Anonymous

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic…

— Danielle Steel

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish…

— Victoria Chang

“He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the…

— E.L. Konigsburg

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in…

— Henry Winkler

All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million…

— Mindy Kaling

“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a…

— Walter Scott

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their…

— Francine Prose

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space…

— Italo Calvino

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some…

— Melanie Lynskey

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family…

— Tom Robbins

I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I…

— Roy Kesey

“Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time…

— Diane Setterfield

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from…

— James Laughlin

“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.”

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps…

— William Hazlitt

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

Some of the best proof reading is done in the 50 microseconds after you hit 'send.'

— Anonymous

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its…

— John Owen

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

— Stephen Fry

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

— Isaac Watts

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very…

— Iain Banks

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

— David Hume

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

— Marie Rutkoski