Reading Quotes · Page 107

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

— John Lewis

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

— Cass McCombs

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

— David Pogue

I have a ritual of reading before bed, no matter how tired I am.

— Cathy Newman

“We don’t become adults when we start making love, we become adults when we stop playing”

— Ela Crain

“I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

— Laura Bush

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has…

— Jim Mattis

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know…

— Sarah Paulson

Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep.…

— Alice Walker

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to…

— Albert Einstein

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way…

— Twinkle Khanna

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I…

— Che Guevara

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and…

— August Wilson

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…

— George Orwell

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing…

— Lucas Mann

I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this…

— David C. Driskell

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…

— Edmond Jabes

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced…

— Sandra Cisneros

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

“I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!”

— Iain Pattison

“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.”

— James Jeffrey Roche

“Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

— David Levithan

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

— Charice Pempengco

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

— Munira Mirza

“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

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." [ Arthur ]”

— PBS Kids

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.”

— Jessica E. Larsen

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

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

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

— Mem Fox

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

— Chath Piersath

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