Reading Quotes · Page 136

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

“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

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Jessica E. Larsen

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

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that…

— Avi

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort…

— Robert Greene

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if…

— Peg Kehret

“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at…

— Richard Russo

I'm the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the…

— John Bishop

Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.…

— Jack Handey

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with…

— Katie Couric

“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“I was just thinking that it would be nice if, for once in a while, life made things easier,” I told him,…

— Adele Rose

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:…

— Samuel Johnson

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have…

— Bill Veeck

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense…

— Pablo Picasso

“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern…

— N.T. Wright

“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as…

— John Kendrick Bangs

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

“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

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

— Charice Pempengco

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

— David Levithan

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

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

— Konrad Lorenz

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

— Anonymous

“Your life will be the result of who and what you’ve been reading and the people you know.”

— Rui Zhi Dong

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

— Mattia Caldara

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

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

— Oliver D. Crisp

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

— Jami Attenberg