Reading Quotes · Page 124

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love”

— S.E. SEVER

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

— Paul Rand

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

— Bill Bruford

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

— Northrop Frye

“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

— Toba Beta

“God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to…

— Patience Johnson

I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind…

— Vin Scully

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me…

— William Hazlitt

I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and…

— David Harewood

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a…

— Eleanor Catton

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by…

— Dave Sim

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going…

— Gary Ross

Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I…

— Sinclair Lewis

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't…

— Charles William Eliot

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to…

— Terry Eagleton

“The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously – so voraciously, in fact,…

— Chris Wooding

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind…

— Jeanette Winterson

“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,…

— Franz Rottensteiner

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy…

— Theodore Parker

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches via showing what we call fate”

— Ela Crain

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

— Ruth Ozeki

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

— Anonymous

“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.”

— Amit Kalantri

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

— Eric Thomas

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are…

— Italo Calvino

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

— Socrates

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

It's not research if you're really interested in what you're reading.

— Ravi Subramanian

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

— Seamus Heaney

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

— Jewel

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.

— Sean Doolittle