Reading Quotes
4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors
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Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
— Unknown Author
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I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.
— Mario Savio
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with…
— Fergie
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I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth…
— Troy Polamalu
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
— Adam Gopnik
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I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and…
— Caroline Kennedy
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Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers…
— Tim Brown
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
— Vernon Lee
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If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers…
— Marion Nestle
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Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
— Henry R. Luce
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But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and…
— Raul Hilberg
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An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather…
— James Paul Gee
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Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite…
— David Liss
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I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,…
— Ben Lerner
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A…
— Michael Dirda
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It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant…
— Steve Aylett
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Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but…
— Jonathan Yardley
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Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three…
— Unknown Author
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The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses…
— Alane Ferguson
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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer…
— Jonathan Evison
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Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.
— Justine Musk
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If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of…
— Harry Mulisch
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The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by…
— Anne Fortier
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Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is…
— Anandmurti Gurumaa
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