Reading Quotes · Page 156

So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.

— Cass Sunstein

“You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

— Sheryl Crow

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

“I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

— Alex O'Loughlin

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

— Judy Blume

I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part…

— Tohoru Masamune

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,…

— Roald Dahl

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind…

— Seamus Heaney

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by…

— James Gleick

It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.…

— Gary Paulsen

It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the…

— Charles Bock

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still…

— Chris Hayes

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting…

— Terry Pratchett

For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians…

— Shobana

“Books are essential to me. I cannot live without them, because I cannot live without reading. But, Arry has just said to…

— Aidan Chambers

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize…

— C. S. Lewis

“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge…

— Eudora Welty

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's…

— Rupi Kaur

“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on…

— Nancy Moser

On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I…

— James Frey

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

— Michael Franti

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek”

— Azuka Onwuka

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

“novels can be the greatest teachers of all. They teach the person reading without the person ever realizing it.” Morgan”

— Lynnette Bonner

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison”

— Sean Liburd

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

— Ross Douthat

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

— Jason Blum

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

— Anonymous

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

— Arfa Karim

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

— Ben Fogle

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo