Reading Quotes - page 68

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading. (Amanda Marshall)
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. View quote
Amanda Peet
There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading. View quote
Amandla Stenberg
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible. View quote
Amandla Stenberg
I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone. View quote
Amy Seimetz
I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away. View quote
Andre Rieu
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years. View quote
Andrea Riseborough
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 are praying for. View quote
Angelina Grimke
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. View quote
Abigail Spencer
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church. View quote
Angus T. Jones
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one. (Ann Hood)
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know. View quote
Ann M. Martin
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness. View quote
Anna Silk
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. View quote
Anne Graham Lotz
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. View quote
Anne Michaels
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. View quote
Arthur Christiansen
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. View quote
Arthur Smith
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. View quote
Arthur Smith
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers. (Ashwin Sanghi)
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. View quote
Austin Peck
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 quote
Avi Arad
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did. View quote
Adora Svitak
Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them. View quote
Al Feldstein