Reading Quotes · Page 131

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

— George Saunders

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.”

— K.D. Green

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything…

— Robin Sloan

“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a…

— Anonymous

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing…

— Willa Holland

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading—that is, really reading, interpreting—literature is practice for reading and interpreting…

— Karen Swallow Prior

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they…

— George Saunders

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,…

— Virginia Woolf

I get stressed preparing the night before a red-carpet event, so I like to try and plan on doing nothing in the…

— Poppy Delevingne

If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!…

— John Green

“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have…

— Robertson Davies

The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn…

— Matt Cullen

Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits…

— George Pattison

“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and…

— Joshua Foer

Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of…

— John Cassian

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against…

— Adam Zagajewski

I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring…

— David Myers

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

— Claire Coffee

“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.”

— Marjorie Taylor

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

— Noam Chomsky

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

In tactics, no information is better than too much…because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

— Giovanni Guidetti

'Sharp Objects' is honestly one of my most exciting reading experiences.

— Krysten Ritter

To play the ultimate Reading set, you need to freak yourself out for a few days beforehand.

— James Righton

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

— Chad Harbach

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

— Tom Robbins

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

— Russell Crowe