Reading Quotes · Page 77

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

“I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.”

— Mattia Caldara

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

— Tom Felton

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.”

— Jessica E. Larsen

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books…

— Jack Prelutsky

When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team 'Arrow.' It wasn't…

— Juliana Harkavy

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of…

— Jon Scieszka

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was…

— Blake Bailey

When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading…

— Justin Rosenstein

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for…

— Cathleen Schine

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest…

— Marie Corelli

People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour…

— Nina Jean Slack

“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks,…

— E.M. Forster

When I took drum lessons as a kid the teacher would always ask me if I practiced, and I'd be like 'nope'…

— Zac Farro

“Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do…

— Sara Nelson

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So…

— Noy Holland

“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we…

— Alberto Manguel

For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially…

— Angelina Jolie

When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything…

— Brit Marling

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." [ Arthur ]”

— PBS Kids

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

— Charice Pempengco

“Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

— David Levithan

“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

— James Jeffrey Roche

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

— Munira Mirza

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

— Laura Bush

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!”

— Iain Pattison

Read and you will learn, and when you have learned, you will read..both will give you wisdom

— Azwindini Mulaudzi

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

“The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.”

— Paul Andreas Wunderlich

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

— David Markson

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

— Chath Piersath