Reading Quotes - page 9

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. (Joseph Addison)
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. View quote
Joseph Addison
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic [sic] reading list. View quote
George W. Bush
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others - so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people." View quote
Roger Ebert
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer. View quote
Roger Ebert
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. View quote
B. F. Skinner
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... View quote
John Dryden
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. View quote
John Wesley
No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading. View quote
Ronald Fisher
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading. View quote
Ronald Fisher
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. (Ryszard Kapuściński)
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. View quote
Paul Nurse
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. View quote
André Maurois
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara. View quote
Patañjali
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. View quote
Ruth Rendell
I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Easy writing makes hard reading. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep. (Stanislaw Ulam)
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book. View quote
Sienna Guillory
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. View quote
Erica Jong
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. View quote
Larry David
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. View quote
Taryn Manning