My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He… — Charles Templeton Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“see what your friends are reading and see your Want to Read, Currently Reading, and Read shelves. When you create a new… — Amazon Copy Share Image
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking. — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. — Nina Blackwood Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.” — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. — Jonathan Daniels Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma &… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
![“He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world...” quote by Charles Templeton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5d1/charles-templeton-43511_commitment_he-jesus-was-the-greatest-human-being-wh_3183762.jpg)
![“I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.” quote by Stephen Dobyns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb6/stephen-dobyns-13599_anticipate_i-think-i-made-a-mistake-with-jane-auste_3185180.jpg)
![“[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.” quote by Robert D. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/517/robert-d-richardson-66344_bookworms_emerson-was-interested-not-in-the-bookwo_3185366.jpg)
![“No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eaa/thomas-jefferson-43_christianity_no-religious-reading-instruction-or-exer_3186938.jpg)
![“An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the…” quote by Geena Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/43e/geena-davis-2583_defining_an-eye-opening-moment-in-my-life-a-very_3188941.jpg)
