Reading Quotes · Page 165

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

— N. T. Wright

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

— Julie Kagawa

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

— Brian Grazer

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

— John Rowland

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

— Peter Morgan

“Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.”

— Nick Krampus

“Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.”

— Toba Beta

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God…

— Anonymous

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it…

— Burn Gorman

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,…

— Nick Hornby

I've made a point throughout my girls' lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it's Oprah Winfrey or…

— Tess Daly

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close…

— Peter Singer

“A Person should thirst after reading. knowledge builds the mind, and in return one can see what one has become; by what…

— Larry Potter

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring…

— Irving Stone

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life…

— Peter Ustinov

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the…

— Killer Mike

“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,…

— Frances White

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through…

— Ellen Lupton

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But…

— Samuel Johnson

I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and…

— Katharine Weymouth

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which…

— James Hutton

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if…

— Nick Hornby

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to…

— Harvey Fierstein

“All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people”

— S.E. SEVER

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

— Marston Bates

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

— Anonymous

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

— William Faulkner

“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.”

— Rachel Lewis

“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)”

— Francisco de Quevedo

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

— Roger Ebert

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

— Charles Stross

“Reading has become schoolwork, not an activity in which students willingly engage outside of school.”

— Donalyn Miller

“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against…

— Harold Bloom

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

— Juliette Binoche

“When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish…”

— Shebapmannil

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“reading is not something you have to do it should be some thing you want to do”

— Taylor Brooks