[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is… — Jacques Bonnet Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I… — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties… — Mildred Armstrong Kalish Copy Share Image
When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning.… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“Advice? Fail constantly. Because the word doesn't mean what you think it means, especially when you're an artist. I use the word… — Victor Giannini Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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![“[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a57/trevor-noah-1603_bar-mitzvah_i-had-bar-mitzvah-it-was-just-me-and-my_2172412.jpg)
![“I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it… There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare…” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ecd/fanny-burney-7403_book_i-have-this-very-moment-finished-reading_1786082.jpg)
