Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,… — Abraham Lincoln
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them — Anatole France
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… — Benjamin Franklin
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special… — Raul Julia
If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply… — Richard Dawkins
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to… — Dorothy Hamill
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of… — Kurt Vonnegut
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in… — Elizabeth Bibesco
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their… — Joan Aiken
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. — Richard Darman
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter… — Amy Schumer
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious… — Vivian Gornick
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular. — Martin Luther
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something.… — Alfred Kazin
You have to learn every day. You can't be playing every day, but you can be practicing. If you cannot be practicing with a net… — John Kessel
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking. — Giovanni Guidetti

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