Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. — Mario Puzo
A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells… — Erica Jong
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come… — Bob Hope
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means… — Aleister Crowley
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. — Socrates
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when… — Carl Safina
I even love the smell of books. — Adriana Trigiani
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer — Plato
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.… — Unknown Author
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family. — Gregory Orr
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are… — Zoe Weil
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium. — Carl Bereiter
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." — Austin Kleon
To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart. — Sonia Choquette
You're never alone when you're reading a book. — Susan Wiggs
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. — Paul Kropp
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or… — Paul Kropp
A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO… — Bernard Haisch
Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about… — Unknown Author
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s… — Gabrielle Hamilton

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