Reading Quotes · Page 153

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

— Thundercat

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson

“The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.”

— Italo Calvino

“The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child’s hands.…

— Kenny Pieper

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“If your TV is broken, don’t get a new one—get a new hobby: reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

— Mark Twain

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up,…

— Roxane Gay

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but…

— Lisa Lucas

It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could…

— Poppy Delevingne

“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.…

— Jasper Fforde

There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so…

— D Michael Hardy

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I…

— Lauren F. Winner

I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think…

— Diana Gabaldon

I moved in with my grandma when I was 17 and she had this giant bookshelf and it was fascinating to me.…

— Christian Madsen

“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend…

— Mark Helprin

We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is…

— Seymour Papert

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As…

— Reza Aslan

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on.…

— Denise Mina

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,…

— Jacob Epstein

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure…

— Kevin Powers

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

— Anonymous

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

— Ian Somerhalder

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

— Juan Goytisolo

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

— Steven Soderbergh

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

— Michael Ignatieff

Watch myself on-screen, I'm able to disconnect because it feels like I'm reading a 'Ms. Marvel' comic and watching my friends.

— Iman Vellani

When I was playing for Reading, I got this feeling of being the No 1 - and I want that at Arsenal.

— Emiliano Martinez

“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

— Joseph Monninger

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

— Henry David Thoreau

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.”

— Montaigne

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”

— Jean Chapman

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

— Julianne Moore