Reading Quotes
4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors
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How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit…
— Gary DeMar
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God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen…
— Scot McKnight
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All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my…
— R. U. Sirius
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Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you, you must welcome…
— Grace Llewellyn
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The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time…
— Kate Bernheimer
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Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
— Alexander Chee
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws…
— Alexander Chee
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But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't…
— Peter Orner
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body…
— Rachel Kushner
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I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've…
— Richard Matheson
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear…
— Eric Holder
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You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a…
— Harvey Keitel
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -…
— H. L. Mencken
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I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are…
— Davy Jones
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found…
— John McGahern
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind…
— Adam Weishaupt
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
— Charles Darwin
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be…
— Ian McShane
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In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
— Carlos Fuentes
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
— Rex Stout
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