Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands… — Anatole Broyard
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. — Emma Watson
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about… — Terry Pratchett
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are… — John Dewey
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull… — Daniel J. Boorstin
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and… — Robertson Davies
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform… — Robert Green Ingersoll
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. — Gloria Steinem
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt
The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure — Jane Brody
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Unknown Author
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout… — Benedict of Nursia
The less we know the more we suspect — Josh Billings
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.… — Dave Barry
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads — Marcus Aurelius
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his… — Samuel Johnson
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. — Hugh Mackay
...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies. — Unknown Author
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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