Reading Quotes
4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors
-
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all…
— Robert Huber
-
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
— Clarence Darrow
-
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
-
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning…
— Eugene H. Peterson
-
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale…
— Wilkie Collins
-
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,…
— Rick Bragg
-
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of…
— Stephen King
-
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
— Kelley Armstrong
-
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't…
— Ed McBain
-
At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out…
— Fritjof Capra
-
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.…
— Ellen Lupton
-
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting,…
— Wilfred Owen
-
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any…
— David Attenborough
-
I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m thinking! Then I’m…
— Kathleen Hanna
-
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey.…
— Jo Walton
-
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into…
— Jo Walton
-
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to…
— Clarence Darrow
-
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
— Lin Yutang
-
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
— Lin Yutang
-
I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no…
— Caitlin Moran
-
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure…
— Stan Lee
-
Reading is very good. And you can quote me!
— Stan Lee
-
If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their…
— Jack Canfield
-
Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe.…
— Jack Canfield
-
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at…
— Eckhart Tolle
Who Wrote These Reading Quotes
2,815 authors contributed a total of 4,849 Reading Quotes, led by these top contributors: