Reading Quotes · Page 136

In reading celebrities, public figures, their lives are on Google! So, obviously, there's information about them.

— Tyler Henry

“Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!”

— Carmela Dutra

“Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”

— Anonymous

“We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.”

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I…

— Karan Wahi

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able…

— Robert B. Parker

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and…

— Ann M. Martin

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a…

— Virginia Woolf

“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.”

— Tobias Wolff

“I am Mavis Elizabeth Betterly. I am used to hard work. I can run a household better than Mrs. Oblinger ever could.…

— Caroline Starr Rose

As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down…

— Henri Nouwen

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about…

— J Mascis

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody…

— Van Morrison

After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by…

— Murray Bookchin

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a…

— Yu Hua

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope…

— George R. R. Martin

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing…

— Richard Powers

I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor…

— Carlos E. Asay

I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this…

— Amy Bloom

“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great…

— Lemony Snicket

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

That moment when you are reading, your mind wanders off , and you have no idea what you just read. The fuck…

— Anonymous

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

— Paul Kropp

It is until you are lost into reading you will never be found among true readers.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.”

— Patience Johnson

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

— Anonymous

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

— Confucius

“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem.”

— Penelope Lively

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

— Leonard Ravenhill

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you…

— Jupiter Hammon

“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

— Deanna Vasquez

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not…

— Nikki Giovanni

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

— F. Sionil Jose

“Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.

— Sarah Bolger