In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“čitanje, štivo, jeste jedan kraj (krak, okrajak) dela, vidljivog samo u tački preloma (frakture, fragmentacije); dela čija je celina za autora neuhvatljiva,… — Bojan Savić Ostojić Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which… — Arpad Elo Copy Share Image
WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When I'm being driven to the reading, my mom doesn't know who the client is. My assistant, Charlie, does not know who… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
