Reading Quotes · Page 100

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

— Nick Hornby

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

— Anonymous

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

— Henri Nouwen

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

— James L. Barksdale

“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!”

— Shandy L. Kurth

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out…

— William Maxwell

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…

— Gilbert Highet

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the…

— Lou Gehrig

“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I…

— Jane Austen

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has…

— Dennis Hopper

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken…

— Robert D. Hare

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know…

— A. S. Byatt

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read…

— Richelle Mead

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name,…

— John Zorn

Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our…

— Oliver DeMille

Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad…

— William J. Brennan

“Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done…

— Mortimer J. Adler

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior…

— Felix Frankfurter

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if…

— Barry McGee

“Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art…

— Mike A. Lancaster

George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against…

— Robert Kroetsch

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

— Kate Thornton

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

— Eve Merriam

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

— Rob Lowe

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

— Joey Santiago

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

— Oswald Spengler

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

— Ian Mcewan

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

— Robert Smith

“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”

— Alice Walker