Reading Quotes · Page 171

I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.

— Wyatt Cenac

For me, that's one of my strong suits here in the NBA with reading defenses, moving side-to-side, going to pick-and-rolls.

— Jared Dudley

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

— Joseph Morgan

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

— Christine Lagarde

“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.”

— Rebecca Wells

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

— Salman Rushdie

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't…

— Lev Yilmaz

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or…

— Shel Silverstein

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate…

— Noelle Stevenson

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my…

— Thomas Quasthoff

The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard…

— Mark Waid

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading…

— Steven Soderbergh

“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the…

— George R.R. Martin

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or…

— Virginia Woolf

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I…

— Bert Hellinger

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling…

— Susan Hill

“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate…

— Neil Postman

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

— Jim Davis

“Apparently, the way to Emma’s heart was through her reading glasses.”

— Amanda Abram

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

— Paulo Freire

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

— Geri Halliwell

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

— Nick Lake

I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'

— Ruth Jones

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry

“Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...”

— Phyllis Whitney

I highly recommend reading the book 'Confessions Of A Video Vixen.'

— Katherine Ryan

“The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I think only bookworms understand the kind of power stories can have on a person”

— Cassie Mae

“As a man of 65, I prefer tea, which takes longer to prepare, and take even longer to taste it.”

— Lin Hwai-min