Reading Quotes · Page 169

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

— G-Eazy

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

— Mark Haddon

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies,

— Paul LePage

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out…

— Anne Michaels

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

— Barry Barish

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”

— Robert Littell

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of…

— Jeffrey Wright

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm…

— Felicity Jones

Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got…

— William Empson

It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to…

— Zoe Kazan

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!…

— Jane Austen

I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has…

— Neil Gaiman

Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board…

— Billy Campbell

I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking.…

— Janeane Garofalo

“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return…

— Graham Greene

I have the mohawk,even though people still call it the mohawk I say "I don't wanna be disrespectful to the Mohican Indians…

— Mr. T

“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is…

— Jacques Bonnet

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn…

— Gillian Flynn

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;…

— Mortimer Adler

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this…

— Amandla Stenberg

I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,…

— Bernard Beckett

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

— Mason Cooley

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

— Sylvia Plath

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

— Henry Allen Ironside

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

— Gary Snyder

I don't read things that make me regret, I rather read things that make me believe in my Hope.

— Terry Mark

“Music is the best storage for human memory. As soon as you hit play, it can take you back in time”

— Ela Crain

“Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are,”

— George R.R. Martin

“Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read.”

— Amanda Penland

“You can measure how much you changed over the years by reading the same book twice”

— Ela Crain

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of…

— Adelise M. Cullens

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

— Donald Hall

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

— Abraham Lincoln