Reading Quotes · Page 125

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

— Sheryl Crow

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

— Anonymous

“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.”

— AnnaMarie Ralph

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

— Manisha Koirala

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

— Danny DeVito

“Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.”

— Deyth Banger

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

— Philip Larkin

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

— Barry Barish

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,…

— Dan Mangan

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the…

— Anonymous

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange…

— Francois Fenelon

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's…

— Stephen King

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience…

— John Kricfalusi

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as…

— Oswald Chambers

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom…

— Jessye Norman

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the…

— Paul Merton

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the…

— Jack Welch

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted…

— Dennis Haysbert

The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would…

— William Lane Craig

“We get heroes with impossible abilities and heroines with strengths we can only dream of. And for a little while, we are…

— Darynda Jones

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we…

— Keith Gessen

You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you…

— Mark Zuckerberg

“... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a…

— Mortimer Jerome Adler

“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded…

— Victoria Schwab

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”

— Samantha Ellis

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

— Michael Seibel

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

— Robert Christgau

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

Reading bedtime stories as a family activity seems to have been overtaken by other forms of entertainment.

— Bernard Cribbins

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

— Raymond Moody

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

— Jeannette Walls

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

— Anne Fletcher

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

— Amy Tan

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

— Roger Ebert

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

— George Pelecanos

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

— Richard Flanagan

“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!”

— Christian Lander