Reading Quotes · Page 132

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

— Hugo Chavez

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

— Lin Yutang

“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins”

— Paula V. Hardin

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

— Augustine Birrell

My girlfriend is always reading too much into things. Like my love letter to her sister for example.

— Anonymous

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

— Bernard Cribbins

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

— David Karp

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

— Iris Murdoch

I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the…

— Emily Ratajkowski

“What are you reading?" She replied without once taking her eyes off the page. "I am reading the sort of sentimental novel…

— Maya Rodale

I try to learn as much as I can and try to - I haven't really read any books in my entire…

— Viktor Hovland

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less…

— Melissa Bank

I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it." I will tell you this.…

— Donald Trump

Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went…

— John Leguizamo

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story…

— Alice Munro

“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in…

— Donalyn Miller

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife…

— C. S. Lewis

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and…

— Robert T. Bakker

“I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of…

— Italo Calvino

“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They…

— Douglas A. Martin

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English…

— William Mapother

I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading…

— Amy Schumer

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is…

— Mindy Kaling

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

— Anne Bronte

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

— Richard Flanagan

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

— Neil Gaiman

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

— Dr. Seuss

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

— Susan Cain

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

— Timothy Morton

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

— Frances Fox Piven

“Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.”

— Aneta Cruz

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

— Lindsey Davis

“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?”

— Kamand Kojouri

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath