Reading Quotes · Page 169

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.”

— Marjorie Taylor

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

— Claire Coffee

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

— Noam Chomsky

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay…

— Francis Spufford

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that…

— Neil Gaiman

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes…

— James Meade

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means…

— David Simon

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when…

— Keanu Reeves

People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How…

— Walter Mosley

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to…

— Seth Shostak

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely…

— Chris Ofili

At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which…

— Hannah Arendt

Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a…

— Alina Bronsky

“We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us…

— Laurence Cossé

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is…

— Andrew Clements

“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have…

— Colum McCann

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

In tactics, no information is better than too much…because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

— Giovanni Guidetti

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

— Charles Barkley

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

— Diana Gabaldon

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

— Libba Bray

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts…

— Mortimer Adler

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

— Francis Bacon

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

— Benjamin Carson

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

— Anonymous

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

— J. K. Rowling

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

— Rebecca Eaton

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo