She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
“This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“During his long career as an agitator, Hitler had studied the effects of herd-poison and had learned how to exploit them for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“She wanted to read things -- could not resist wanting to read things -- and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and… — Ann Romines Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men… — Thoreau Henry David Copy Share Image
As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Bejah zauzet čitanjem i pisanjem, kad grunu u moju sobu velik broj tih ljudi naoružanih neznanjem tupim kao batina i mržnjom oštrom… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image