Reading Quotes · Page 117

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

— Bill Sienkiewicz

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

— Sturgill Simpson

“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.”

— Franz Kafka

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

— Audrey Hepburn

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

— Hortense Calisher

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she…

— Diane Setterfield

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book…

— Marcia Gay Harden

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to…

— Kate DiCamillo

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be…

— Ellen G. White

“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone…

— Karl Kristian Flores

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part…

— Craig Johnson

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all…

— Marsden Hartley

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense…

— Garance Dore

“even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books…

— Anonymous

When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do -…

— Tanya Saracho

It's so fun to be on a show where we're all on our toes, all the time. We're constantly texting each other…

— Devin Kelley

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape…

— Cynthia Voigt

“Victor of course never failed to fire a monster joint on these underground missions. And there he would sit reading. He liked…

— Sunil Yapa

“In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to…

— Carl M. Tomlinson

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit…

— Pope Pius XII

I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into…

— Barack Obama

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where…

— Jack Nicholson

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the…

— Joe Biden

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.”

— Cynthia Hand

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

— Stephen Greenblatt

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

— Lolo Jones

“You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations”

— S.E. SEVER

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

— Sophie Hannah

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

— Alan Dean Foster

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to…

— Jessica Marais

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

— Raymond Chandler

The way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English.

— Homero Blancas

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

— Dawn Ostroff

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or…

— Alice Hoffman