Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him. — Bill Walton
The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to… — George W. Bush
One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read,… — George W. Bush
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You… — Abigail Spencer
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind,… — Gene Barry
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight — Bob Geldof
Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now,… — Anthony Bourdain
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. — Annie Proulx
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned… — Bill Veeck
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. — Michael Foot
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. — E. W. Howe
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… — D. H. Lawrence
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places. — William Walker
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you… — Harold Bloom
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. — Ishmael Reed
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such… — Edward Abbey
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! — Jane Austen
Life is too short for reading inferior books. — James Bryce

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