Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of… — Augustus Hare
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know… — Mark Twain
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must… — Gregory Rabassa
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. — Charles Scribner IV
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as… — Thomas Jefferson
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. — Bill Gates
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and… — Andy Wilkinson
I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered… — Unknown Author
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries… — Unknown Author
In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the… — Michio Kaku
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the… — Albert Einstein
In this wonderful book Stephen Buhner shows us that the heart is not a machine but the informed, intelligent core of our emotional, spiritual, and… — Unknown Author
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these… — Margot Livesey
I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after… — Zacarias Moussaoui
Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. — Friedrich Kittler
Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never… — Phyllis A. Whitney
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could… — Lauren F. Winner
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading. — Lorin Stein
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. — Lorin Stein
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not… — Rikki Ducornet
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed.… — Carol Bowman

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