Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels.… — F L Lucas
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies! — Wally Amos
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is… — Pete Fountain
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for… — John Dufresne
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. — Jupiter Hammon
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. — Cathleen Schine
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book… — Debra Ginsberg
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I… — John Nelson Darby
Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at… — Freddie Hubbard
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . .… — Salvador de Madariaga
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting. — J. Norman Collie
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else… — Paul Desmond
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly… — Lewis Buzbee
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and… — Stanley Crouch
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. — Alice James
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking. — Lucian
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do… — Brian P. Cleary
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows… — Lemmy Kilmister

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