Reading Quotes · Page 103

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

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Julie Kagawa

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

— Richard Flanagan

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

— N. T. Wright

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I…

— Linda Ronstadt

Regarding scripts and projects, I've always been open to reading all sorts of genres and never closing myself off to one, because…

— Lily Collins

Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.

— James Heckman

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly…

— Rudolf Flesch

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.…

— Jose Parla

“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but…

— Edward Abbey

“You only really discover a masterpiece after a third or fourth reading, don’t you agree?” “And how can you tell something is…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but…

— Clive James

As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a…

— Elijah Wood

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in…

— Richard Hell

While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the…

— Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start…

— Gilles Deleuze

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance,…

— Richard Meale

“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn…

— Neil Gaiman

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I…

— Rick Warren

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with…

— Susan Coolidge

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

— Bel Powley

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

— Rakim

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

“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

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

— William Faulkner

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

— Anonymous

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

— Marston Bates

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

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

— S.E. SEVER

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

— Peter Morgan

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

— John Rowland