Reading Quotes · Page 119

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!”

— Shandy L. Kurth

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

— Nick Hornby

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

— Anonymous

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

— Lois Lowry

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

— Saoirse Ronan

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

— Anis Mansour

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel…

— Patricia Briggs

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is…

— Anonymous

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what…

— Corey Feldman

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any…

— Nina Simone

The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for…

— Michael Mosley

“I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your…

— Chris Stocking

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each…

— Julia Alvarez

“It is a great misfortune, that any portion of your time should be spent in reading or thinking about matters of this…

— Anonymous

I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the…

— Zack Snyder

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter…

— Taylor Lautner

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a…

— Bell Hooks

Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou…

— John Bunyan

“Please please read. Everything and anything. You may not remember all of it, you may not remember any of it But from…

— Amy Mowafi

If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small…

— Brian Boyd

I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little…

— Judy Blume

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

— Heidi Klum

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

— Jack Vance

I love reading I know its very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to…

— Jim Shepard

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

— Robert D. Richardson

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

— Luke Campbell

“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”

— John McAleer

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

— Samuel Butler

“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.”

— Wayde Goodall

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

— Anonymous

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

— Nicholas D. Kristof