Reading Quotes · Page 108

Read and you will learn, and when you have learned, you will read..both will give you wisdom

— Azwindini Mulaudzi

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

— John Gallagher, Jr

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.

— Spencer Matthews

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by…

— Jay Sean

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see…

— Will Rogers

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind,…

— Joan Erikson

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need…

— Harry Golden

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and…

— Emilia Fox

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start…

— Anne Lamott

“David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is…

— David Lipsky

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written…

— Margaret Mahy

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the…

— Adam Hammond

“reading is like drugs, once u addicted of it u cant stay away ofurself from it n Writing is like sex, the…

— AMG

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to…

— Jim Woodring

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…

— Haruki Murakami

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another…

— David L. Ulin

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,…

— Barbara Johnson

I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old…

— Cameron Monaghan

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

— Mark Doty

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I…

— Jim Parsons

“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.”

— Joscelyn Gleave

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time…

— Maggie Rogers

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make…

— James Patterson

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

— Orlando Jones

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

— Italo Calvino

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.”

— Mattia Caldara

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz