Reading Quotes · Page 90

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

— Annie Proulx

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or…

— Simon Van Booy

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of…

— Frank Shorter

“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.”

— Thomas Hardy

“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.”

— Phillip Knight

“Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

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

— Chath Piersath

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books…

— Anita Silvey

“. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she…

— Ken Kesey

When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through…

— Francoise Mouly

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.…

— Adriana Trigiani

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.'…

— Paul McCartney

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and…

— Anne Waldman

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at…

— Luis von Ahn

If someone gives you an IQ test, what do they test? They test you on reading patterns, predictability. When you're sparring, all…

— Sean Strickland

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive…

— Edward Boyden

A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and…

— Judy Blume

“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is…

— Isaac Asimov

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any…

— Haruki Murakami

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every…

— Sloane Crosley

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect…

— Jon Scieszka

I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking…

— Max von Essen

Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making…

— Violet Chachki

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

— David Markson

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

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

— Azwindini Mulaudzi

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Laura Bush

“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

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

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

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