Reading Quotes · Page 143

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

— Gina Barreca

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

“Relax fully into the present—the only time and place where you exist”

— Ela Crain

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.

— Quran

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

— William Osler

“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

— W. G. Sebald

“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said,…

— Sarah Addison Allen

The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can…

— Ekaterina Gordeeva

“I use the time to finish reading Of Mice and Men, which turns out to be just as awful as I thought…

— Hannah Harrington

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system…

— Michael Bond

What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of…

— Rawi Hage

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books…

— Robin Hobb

“Terás então de ler doutra maneira, Como, Não serve a mesma para todos, cada um inventa a sua, a que lhe for…

— José Saramago

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…

— Noam Chomsky

I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the…

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re…

— Miles Teller

The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen…

— L. J. Smith

“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a…

— Mark Edmundson

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study,…

— Barrow

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

— W. C. Fields

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

— Anonymous

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

— Friedrich Kittler

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

— Finn Wolfhard

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.

— Keith Barry

Books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves

— CJoybell C

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

— Malachy McCourt

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

— Anna Quindlen

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

— Christopher Nolan

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.

— Mitch Leigh

“Think of 'YET' as a superpower - it makes you get better every time you try.”

— Vee Bee

I haven't read enough books to consider myself a bookworm, but I enjoy reading.

— Ellie Rowsell

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

— Kurt Vonnegut