Reading Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reading Time
“The world of books is a world of wonder. She's been out there a little bit. Into the world.” — Sally-Ann Murray Copy Share Image
“And she is the reader who browses the shelf and looks for new worlds but finds herself.” — Laura Purdie Salas Copy Share Image
“But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all those hundreds of thousands of years… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had read about people-where? she could not remember this either- who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to not… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put… — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great… — Susan Power Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro 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 script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“What you’re holding in your hands is a BookShots Flames story. It’s part of a revolution in reading. Hand-picked by James Patterson, BookShots Flames… — Beth Ciotta Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe. — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
