Reading Quotes · Page 94

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

— Jami Attenberg

“It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading.”

— Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

— Dean Koontz

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for…

— Alicia Vikander

“But strangely, I am all right. The world I belong to now is the one in the books I read. When I…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

— William Ralph Inge

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter…

— Joseph Conrad

“Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds…

— E.E. Knight

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a…

— Alice Hoffman

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big…

— Christina Aguilera

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else…

— Geri Halliwell

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how…

— Penelope Lively

We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting…

— Hamish Bowles

“He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still…

— Ben Daniels

“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s…

— Steven Pinker

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting…

— Adam Kirsch

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently…

— Mark Twain

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore…

— Nick Hornby

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

— Rumi

“The biggest truths are the ones told after the longest silences”

— S.E. SEVER

“Life is like reading a book... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter.”

— Christie Cote

“Life is a two-way ticket; inbound is random, outbound is unknown”

— S.E. SEVER

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

— Kelly Gallagher

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

— Franz Kafka

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

— Kawhi Leonard

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

— Karin Slaughter

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

— Sam Amidon

“It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.”

— Stephen Richards

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

— Rod Stewart

“There are two types of dreams: the ones that come true and the ones that pass through”

— S.E. SEVER

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he…

— Tom Junod

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

— Kamal Haasan

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

— Charlie Hunnam