Reading Quotes · Page 153

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking…

— Dylan Thomas

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

— Derek Landy

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus

“Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.”

— Amit Kalantri

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

— Anton Yelchin

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity…

— Scott Turow

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things…

— Mizuki Nomura

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the…

— Sasha Alexander

Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which…

— Arpad Elo

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…

— David Brainerd

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me…

— Jonathan Dee

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only…

— Henry Miller

My biggest regret is not spending more time reading when I was a teenager. My entire focus was on having fun and…

— Richard Bacon

“There’s a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Today, if the CEO thinks it's a good idea, it's done everywhere; if the CEO thinks it's a bad idea, it's done…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix,…

— Bruno Schulz

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that…

— Wendy Lesser

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced…

— Bill Watterson

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.…

— Mike A. Lancaster

“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are…

— Graham Greene

Today one can read the Gospel also on so many technological instruments. You can carry the whole Bible on your mobile phone,…

— Pope Francis

Here I am reading quotes with only one person on my mind the whole time.

— Mikaela Lingat

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer

— Plato

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

— Satya Nadella

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

— Bryson DeChambeau

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

— C. S. Lewis

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

— Roald Dahl

“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”

— Austin Wright

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

— John Bayley

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

— Sjon

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”

— Ian Campbell Ross

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore

If I have a free day, sometimes I'm just reading scripts all day. They pile up.

— Julia Fox

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

— Diana Gabaldon

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

— David Bailey