Reading Quotes · Page 81

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.

— Voltaire

Readings all have their own intricacies but every reading has been fulfilling, even the challenging ones.

— Tyler Henry

You're starting to move on because if you weren't, you wouldnt be reading this. In fact, you wouldnt have looked up

— Anonymous

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

— Guy Davenport

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

— Poonam Dhillon

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

— Samuel Johnson

“History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.”

— Jerry Spinelli

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them,…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading…

— Josh Hartnett

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I…

— Ann Coulter

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference…

— Joseph Parker

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.…

— Dave Eggers

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say…

— Jeanette Winterson

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't…

— Carrie Fisher

I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I…

— Larkin Grimm

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains…

— Dan Chaon

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that…

— Wanda Landowska

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against…

— Jerome K. Jerome

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then…

— Chad Harbach

Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic…

— Eckhart Tolle

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My…

— Henry Petroski

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have…

— Mavis Gallant

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

— Hans Zimmer

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

— Edward Gibbon

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

— Marti Noxon

It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book

— Maria Angelica Zabala

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

— Cyndi Lauper

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else!

— Rajkumar Hirani

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

— J. K. Rowling

“Never break what you have in hand because you found a better one”

— S.E. SEVER

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

— Roald Dahl

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

“WOLF BROTHER is the kind of story you dream of reading and all to rarely find.”

— Ian McKellan

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.”

— Joanna Bolouri

“Don't you understand Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!”

— J.M. Barrie

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

— Dan Barber

“...she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...”

— Marcel Proust