Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.” — Sarah Wynde Copy Share Image
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for… — St. Teresa Of Avila Copy Share Image
“A fortuneteller at a magicians' convention in Atlantic City once told him that when he fell in love it would be forever,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the… — Catherine Jones Copy Share Image
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“It’s a lot to process,” she said. “ What Sebastian said, what happened last night, everything. I need to sleep, but I’… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish. — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Society needs youngsters with well-developed personalities and not just bookworms. — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane -… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
