Reading Quotes · Page 133

You can't start a new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

— Eric Thomas

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

— Laila Lalami

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

— Lorin Stein

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

— Anonymous

“Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't…

— Curtis Jackson

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time…

— Jools Holland

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me,…

— Jeff Abbott

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of…

— Maria Montessori

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You…

— Robert B. Parker

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand,…

— Louie Anderson

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading,…

— Sefi Atta

“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the…

— Anthony Mary Claret

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many…

— Corey Taylor

“You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me…

— Nema Al-Araby

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how…

— C.S. Lewis

The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed…

— Sandra Scarr

I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do…

— Michael Buble

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy…

— Jill Tweedie

Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the…

— Michael Jackson

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

— David Maraniss

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.

— Andre Rieu

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

— Lynda Barry

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

— Charles Barkley

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts…

— Mortimer Adler

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

— Libba Bray

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

— Diana Gabaldon

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

— Benjamin Carson

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

— Francis Bacon

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

— Rebecca Eaton

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

— J. K. Rowling

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

— Anonymous

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner