Reading Quotes (640)
Quotes and Citations about reading
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery... view
By: Lynn Abbey
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading... view
By: M. H. Abrams
I keep reading between the lies... view
By: Goodman Ace
Learn as much by writing as by reading... view
By: Lord Acton
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body... view
By: Joseph Addison
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life... view
By: Joseph Addison
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter... view
By: Mortimer Adler
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums... view
By: Christina Aguilera
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost... view
By: Jenny Agutter
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia... view
By: Woody Allen
I'm good at reading people... view
By: Al Alvarez
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen... view
By: Stephen Ambrose
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition... view
By: A. R. Ammons
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!.. view
By: Wally Amos
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings... view
By: David Amram
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music... view
By: David Amram
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there... view
By: David Amram
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that... view
By: Gillian Anderson
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories... view
By: Kevin J. Anderson
Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book... view
By: Louie Anderson
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him... view
By: Maya Angelou
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor... view
By: David Antin
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes... view
By: Avi Arad
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats... view
By: Diane Arbus
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading... view
By: Mary Archer
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful... view
By: Karen Armstrong
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others... view
By: Antonin Artaud
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry... view
By: Roger Ascham
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like... view
By: Julian Assange
I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about... view
By: Sean Astin
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing... view
By: Jean M. Auel
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen... view
By: Irving Babbitt
Reading maketh a full man.. view
By: Francis Bacon
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action... view
By: George P. Baker
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before... view
By: Nicholson Baker
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases... view
By: Robert T. Bakker
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples... view
By: Emily Greene Balch
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical... view
By: Christian Bale
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming... view
By: Arthur Balfour
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey... view
By: Russell Banks