Reading Quotes · Page 112

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

— Guy Davenport

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

— Sandra Cisneros

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

— Charles Churchill

“If you think you have the power to change someone, why not start from yourself?”

— Ela Crain

“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.

— Kellan Lutz

My reading skills are improving but I'm still using coping strategies. I can read signs and I can work things out.

— Jay Blades

“I suck the words word-dry to me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speed still hard and harder softer then line-lined book-dry ‘til not…

— Chila Woychik

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning…

— Guy Claxton

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously…

— Cecil B. DeMille

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before…

— Lea Seydoux

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography…

— Bruce Schneier

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box. But there is nothing…

— Rachel Wojnarowski

“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.…

— John Green

For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for…

— Jacob Bronowski

With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to…

— Ray Kurzweil

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is…

— Irvine Welsh

There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture…

— Jules Feiffer

“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and…

— Jenny Hubbard

Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no…

— Will Smith

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

— Susan Cain

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

— Malcolm X

“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”

— Clementine Holzinger

“I recommend reading #FourBloodMoons by @PastorJohnHagee // @worthypub” // #BloodMoons”

— John Hagee

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.”

— Jung Chang

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

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

— Michel de Montaigne

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

— Robert Breault

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You cant start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous