Reading Quotes · Page 149

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

— Anonymous

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

— Daniel Negreanu

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

— Nora Ephron

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

— Pete McCarthy

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly…

— Billy Collins

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling.…

— Van Morrison

“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but…

— Nora Roberts

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary…

— Anonymous

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that…

— Benicio Del Toro

I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the…

— Stephen Dobyns

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you…

— Anonymous

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play…

— Jesse Eisenberg

“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a…

— Martha Parravano

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as…

— Jacques Barzun

“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making…

— Diane Setterfield

“For heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined…

— Alan Jacobs

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…

— Joseph Campbell

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

— George Eliot

“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we…

— Pam Brown

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

— Seth Godin

I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection - which is when you leave your body.

— Daisy May Cooper

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

— Gloria Steinem

“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.”

— Frank Morton McMurry

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

Reading papers and memorizing them doesn't make you a good researcher.

— Tasuku Honjo

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

— William Shakespeare

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion…

— Eudora Welty

Air & Students have d same Mentality:( : : U Know How? : : : : Both are Turning d Book's Pages without Reading.

— Anonymous

“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask”

— Will Schwalbe

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

— Orson Scott Card

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

— Ray Bradbury

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell