Reading Quotes · Page 128

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

— Sophie McShera

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

— Pete McCarthy

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

— Deepika Padukone

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”

— Samantha Ellis

No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books.

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we…

— Samantha Bee

I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the…

— Matthew Heineman

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights…

— Tina Fey

I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the…

— Jo Swinson

“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece…

— James W. Sire

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go…

— Nick Hornby

I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20…

— Martin Freeman

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;…

— Samuel Johnson

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new…

— Tom Peters

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book…

— Po Bronson

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out…

— Anonymous

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists…

— Rebecca Solnit

We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture…

— Michel Houellebecq

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.…

— Salman Rushdie

“In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left…”

— Jd Rosy

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

— Voltaire

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

— Bill Gates

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

— Dorothy Day

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

— Denny Hamlin

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott

“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.”

— Walter Moers

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

— Christopher Smart

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

— Mario Puzo

“It takes two people to get together, but only one person to leave”

— S.E. SEVER

“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

— Alison Croggon

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part…

— Charles Clarke

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

— Tim Vine

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin