Reading Quotes - page 72

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate. (Dave Gibbons)
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. View quote
Elias Hicks
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational. View quote
Emeril Lagasse
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! View quote
Emile Hirsch
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math. View quote
Emily Levine
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. View quote
Eric Ripert
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. View quote
Eric Stoltz
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. View quote
Ed McBain
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff. View quote
Eugene H. Peterson
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad. (Fantasia Barrino)
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' View quote
Franz Wright
I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script. View quote
Freddie Highmore
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. View quote
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway. View quote
Felicity Jones
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them. View quote
Felicity Jones
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence. View quote
Francis Spufford
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. View quote
Francisco Costa
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot. View quote
G-Eazy
Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading. View quote
Georgina Chapman
For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. (Geri Halliwell)
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic. View quote
Geri Halliwell
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. View quote
Gilbert Murray
I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements. View quote
Ginnifer Goodwin
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me. View quote
Gore Verbinski