Reading Quotes

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to… — Ray Bradbury
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation.… — Christina Aguilera
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,… — David Brainerd
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount… — Jo Brand
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you.… — Jo Brand
I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube… — Jo Brand
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced… — Vera Brittain
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it… — Rupert Brooke
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. — Helen Gurley Brown
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. — Jimmy Buffett
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better… — Warren Buffett
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. — Anthony Burgess
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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