Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we… — Angelina Grimke
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading… — Rick Strassman
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust… — Seneca the Younger
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,… — Annie Dillard
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of… — Blaise Pascal
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in… — Maggie Gallagher
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast… — Jerome K. Jerome
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people… — Robert Creeley
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's… — Tao Lin
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to… — Virginia Woolf
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books… — C.S. Lewis
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he… — Oswald Chambers
The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured… — Richard J. Foster
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the… — Fernando Pessoa
I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and… — Paul McKenna
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully… — Manuel Puig
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been… — Jason Mewes
You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous… — Nicholas G. Carr
Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could… — Arpad Elo
I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before… — Cameron Diaz
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are… — Jami Gertz
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a… — Frank Smith
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything… — Frank Smith
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person… — Earl Nightingale

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