Reading Quotes · Page 148

Beware of learning the art of face reading, for written on every face are the conditions of heart

— Mak_786

“Happiness doesn’t live in expensive houses; it passes by simple routes”

— Ela Crain

“I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.”

— Gina Sheridan

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

— Sophie McShera

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

— Deepika Padukone

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters…

— Maryanne Wolf

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading…

— Jane Austen

I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay…

— Sam Hamill

I found Wattpad because I was reading a story on Instagram, actually. They're called 'Imagines,' and they are like little fanfictions that…

— Anna Todd

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney…

— Cornel West

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that…

— Lauryn Hill

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"…

— Gregory Rabassa

“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s…

— John Wayne

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and…

— Julianna Baggott

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer…

— Arnold Bennett

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to…

— Anonymous

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of…

— Pauly Shore

In my own research, teaching and consulting experience I have to combine lessons from the field in a relatively inductive and open…

— Yves Doz

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get…

— Al Pacino

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

— Pete McCarthy

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

— Voltaire

“In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left…”

— Jd Rosy

No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books.

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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

— Samantha Ellis

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

— Bill Gates

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

— Dorothy Day

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

— Denny Hamlin

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on…

— Donnie Wahlberg

“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.”

— Anthony Liccione

“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by…

— Gregory Maguire

I prepare for auditions differently depending on what it is - what the material is, what the project is, who I'm reading…

— Matt Lanter

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

— Jessica Long