Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is the use of… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books. — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. — Yajur Veda
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. — Spanish Proverb
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a… — Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would… — Anne Frank
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that… — Henry David Thoreau
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you know… — Unknown Author
This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books, to spread the… — Jeffrey D Wilhelm
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature — William Shakespeare
My girlfriend always laughs during sex -- no matter what she's reading. — Steve Jobs
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And… — David Antin
It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. — Joe Barton
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but… — Roger Ascham
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are… — Jay Chiat

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