Reading Quotes · Page 89

“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.”

— Ruskin Bond

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid…

— Dale Jamieson

I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows.

— Rodney Hood

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

— Jennifer Echols

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on…

— Lisa Jewell

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot…

— Frank McCourt

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird.…

— Evanna Lynch

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware…

— Dan Chaon

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not…

— Anonymous

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or…

— Anonymous

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't…

— Maika Monroe

In school I was sidelined by Tamil language teachers. But in the film industry, I got interested in Tamil poetry after reading…

— Mani Ratnam

It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a…

— Craig Ferguson

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift…

— Pat Williams

“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and…

— Roger Sutton

I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m…

— Kathleen Hanna

I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that…

— John Lennon

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They…

— Len Wiseman

“I bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going…

— Julia Hoban

“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded…

— Victoria Schwab

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

— Sterling W Sill

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a…

— Samuel Johnson

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

— Saul Bellow

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

— James Earl Jones

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

— Glen Hirshberg

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…

— Charlotte Mason

“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.”

— Dan Sanders

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did…

— Gail Kim

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt

“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

— Tom Regan

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

— Miranda Otto

“The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable”

— S.E. SEVER

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.”

— Donald J. Bingle