Reading Quotes · Page 140

“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

— John Locke

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

— Judah Friedlander

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of…

— Richard Baxter

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose…

— Lauren Mayberry

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Clarence Day

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a…

— Alice Hoffman

“Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds…

— E.E. Knight

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter…

— Joseph Conrad

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a…

— Keith Teare

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie…

— Kristen Stewart

I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can…

— Asa Butterfield

I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading…

— Karin Slaughter

I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But…

— Paul Auster

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something…

— Jane Smiley

I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and…

— Anonymous

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.…

— Rudolf Flesch

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying,…

— Nikki Sixx

“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old…

— Laini Taylor

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a…

— Khushwant Singh

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

— Junot Diaz

“I realize that long hours of reading are not for everyone but I have never ceased to be grateful that they are…

— Victor P. Hass

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

— Steven Wright

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.”

— Carmela Dutra

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

— Paul Westerberg

“Reading is a kind of magic that transforms the world around you”

— Rachel

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

— Cathleen Schine

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

— James Patterson

“The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

— Thornton Wilder