Reading Quotes · Page 118

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

— Thomas Ehrlich

“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing…

— Patricia Goldbach

“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.”

— Malak El Halabi

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

— David Baldacci

“Some people are like fireworks: alluring from a distance, but fatal close up”

— S.E. SEVER

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper…

— Robert Macfarlane

“If you hide something you shouldn’t have done, it’s a lie. If you hide something that shouldn’t have happened to you, it’s…

— Ela Crain

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are…

— Zachary Levi

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot…

— Andrew Carnegie

“When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read…

— Cynthia Kadohata

“Based on what I've heard from my posse of proven psychics, what they're reading is actually your energetic field, and is essentially…

— Anne Newgarden

The life is presenting you The best experiences without any Diplomas, And reading daily lessons in the best school without any walls

— Black Son Beats

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or…

— Stephen Fry

Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD…

— Jeremy Sisto

I had been reading a lot of pilots. It was pilot season and I had decided, in my mind, that I wanted…

— Alison Brie

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything…

— Ani DiFranco

“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating…

— Cornelia Funke

I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a…

— Vivek Shraya

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I…

— Allen W. Wood

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will…

— Robert Graves

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

— Joey Santiago

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

— Oswald Spengler

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

— Rob Lowe

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

— Eve Merriam

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

— Kate Thornton

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

— Catherynne M. Valente

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

— James L. Barksdale

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

— Henri Nouwen

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out…

— William Maxwell