Reading Quotes · Page 170

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

— Sergio Leone

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a…

— Craig Finn

“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom.…

— Thomas Hardy

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

— Evelyn Underhill

The advertiser's logotype at the bottom of the ad can be considered as part of the headline. After reading the headline, the…

— John Caples

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out…

— James A. Baldwin

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the…

— Warren Mundine

My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by…

— Frankie Boyle

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we…

— Gioconda Belli

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to…

— Terry Eagleton

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except…

— Thomas a Kempis

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching…

— Augustus William Hare

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading…

— Tess Gerritsen

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant…

— Raymond Chandler

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do…

— Anonymous

One of the things that I love when I go to a film or when I'm reading some book or whatever, is…

— Annette Bening

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…

— Eudora Welty

“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons…

— George R.R. Martin

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm…

— Robert Stone

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right…

— George Saunders

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

— Harrison Barnes

“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to…

— Satinder Bhatti

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

— Jennifer Armentrout

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

— Brent Faiyaz

“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.”

— Anna Quindlen

You can't start a new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous

People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop…

— Carla H. Krueger

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading…

— Mick Jagger

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

— Wallace Stevens

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

— Eric Thomas

“Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

— Anonymous

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

— Lorin Stein

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

— Laila Lalami