Reading books Quotes · Page 9

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

— Joseph Morgan

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

— Eleanor Catton

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure…

— Max Muller

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different…

— Lalla Ward

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant…

— Michel de Montaigne

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think…

— Meg Tilly

I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I…

— Nick Hornby

“I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able…

— Haidy Santos

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are…

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about…

— Ian McEwan

“I believed in Oxford, and cobblestoned squares, and old bricks thick with ivy, a nd rainy days curled up reading books. I…

— Simone St. James

“She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I find most of my friends very pathetic, and that's why I rather keep meeting new people. They rather spend their time…

— Robin Sacredfire

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the…

— Killer Mike

“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft,…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“You're not going to see any former suitors in Forest Crest, are you?" An impish twinkle appeared in her eyes. "No, Mr.…

— Lisa Kleypas

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many…

— Joseph Joubert

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

— Virginia Woolf

“you're never alone when you are reading books. Reading awake your mind,enlighten your life and enrich your knowledge.”

— Anonymous

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

“If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.”

— Fran Veal

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

— William Butler Yeats

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

— Kabir

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife”

— Wilkie Collins