Reading Quotes · Page 89

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.

— Keith Barry

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

— Anonymous

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

— W. C. Fields

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

— Friedrich Kittler

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

— Gina Barreca

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life…

— Anne Lamott

“Life is an act in which we spend our time trying to decide who we are supposed to be while trying to…

— Ela Crain

If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within…

— Michael Rosen

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place…

— Billy Graham

I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a…

— John Conyers

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only…

— Sarah J. Maas

Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He…

— Zach Galifianakis

“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A…

— Cressida Cowell

“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it…

— Mortimer J. Adler

It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can…

— Martin Amis

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends…

— Robert Reed

Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on…

— Polly Berrien Berends

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what…

— Isidore of Seville

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about…

— Kathryn Lasky

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

— William Osler

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.

— Quran

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

“Relax fully into the present—the only time and place where you exist”

— Ela Crain

So there's this girl... SHE'S BEAUTIFUL. And she's reading this... RIGHT NOW.

— Emanuel Sebastiao

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

— Lewis Hamilton

“He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. ”

— Alejandra Díaz Mattoni

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

— Voltaire

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

— Karl Kraus

“I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other”

— Eudora Welty

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not…

— Cilla Black

“The best performers are curious, invest deeply in their growth and adore reading.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

— Ned Vizzini

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and…

— Vikram Seth