Reading Quotes · Page 128

“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

— Samuel Butler

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”

— John McAleer

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

— Luke Campbell

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

— Robert D. Richardson

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

— Anonymous

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton…

— Tommy Lee

“Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision…

— Joshua Rogers

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and…

— Matthew Battles

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting…

— Louise Brown

There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this…

— Isaac Herzog

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country…

— Colm Toibin

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,…

— Martin Luther

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books…

— Mike White

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back…

— Ray Bradbury

I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of…

— Dylan O'Brien

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it…

— Chinua Achebe

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings…

— Scot Armstrong

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become.…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents…

— Meg Rosoff

I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going…

— Erin Andrews

Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to…

— Andrew Latimer

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

“There’s just something about reading a story that makes me happier than anything else in the world.”

— Vanessa Booke

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

— Lauren Conrad

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

— Ben Okri

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

— Ian Mcewan

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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