Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this… — Mario Batali
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — Hilaire Belloc
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It… — Robert Benchley
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next… — John Berger
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It… — Mortimer Adler
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy… — Annie Besant
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. — Renata Adler
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
For people who are readers, reading is important to them. — Jeff Bezos
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. — Jeff Bezos
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I… — Maeve Binchy
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And… — Lewis Black
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading… — Mary J. Blige
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is… — Allan Bloom
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to… — Michael Bloomberg

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