Reading Quotes · Page 112

I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.…

— Pierre Berge

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows…

— Alonzo Church

“I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

— Helen Gurley Brown

For me, that's one of my strong suits here in the NBA with reading defenses, moving side-to-side, going to pick-and-rolls.

— Jared Dudley

“Be prepared to change, because what makes you feel happy will also change”

— Ela Crain

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and…

— Gene Luen Yang

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to…

— Paul Kropp

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong,…

— Carson McCullers

“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This…

— Terry Pratchett

“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book,…

— Pascal Mercier

It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I…

— Nick Hornby

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought…

— John Locke

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question…

— Jeaniene Frost

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

— Elizabeth Bowen

I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I…

— Rod Wave

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett

I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading…

— Karin Slaughter

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading…

— Anonymous

Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great,…

— Gerard Way

[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling.

— Rhoda Koenig

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

— Julianne Hough

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

“I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the…

— Joe Queenan

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is…

— Richard Smalley

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

— Frederick Lenz

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of…

— Sara Ramirez

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

— Rick Warren

I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of…

— R. Kelly

Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down…

— Penn Jillette

“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current.…

— Elizabeth Spencer

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our…

— Steven Spielberg

“If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.”

— Laura Holford-Green

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything…

— Tao Lin

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back…

— Christine Leunens

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

“I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.”

— Gina Sheridan