Reading Quotes - page 91

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in 'dialect' and humor in slang. (Ambrose Bierce)
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The reading of stories and delighting in them made Don Quixote a gentleman: the believing them literally made him a madman who slew lambs instead of feeding them. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. View quote
Nick Cave
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. View quote
Nick Cave
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. View quote
Benicio Del Toro
I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do? View quote
Tori Amos
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. (Maya Angelou)
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. View quote
Maya Angelou
To meet these challenges requires cooperation on a scale not seen before. A realistic reading of the world today demands reinvigorated international and regional institutions. It demands that we confront threats before they spiral out of the control. And it requires American leadership - to protect our interests and uphold our values. View quote
Al Gore
We are supposedly a country at war, but we're all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren't at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading the newspaper and then tuning into American Idol and getting really upset when Constantine gets voted off and then wondering where my head was at. But in a way, that's also the salvation of the country, our level of optimism. View quote
Paul Weitz
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. View quote
Steven Wright
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. View quote
Steven Wright
Hayek, highly influenced by Mach as a young man, began reading him immediately following his return from service in World War I. He remarked about four decades later that he was "stimulated by Mach's work to study psychology and the physiology of the senses,” though his interest in these areas derived as much from disagreement as agreement with Mach's work. View quote
Alan O. Ebenstein
Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. View quote
Daniel Levitin
You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that's found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. It's about the music but it's also about the story. So thank you guys for loving and reading the story and being as into it and as passionate as I am. View quote
Lady Gaga
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. (S. J. Perelman)
For seven blissful years I had spent my time reading, writing and researching a book about introversion. But the publication date had arrived, the idyll was over and my metamorphosis was complete. I was now that impossibly oxymoronic creature: the Public Introvert. View quote
Susan Cain
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible. View quote
Ted Cruz
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. View quote
Seneca
I don't see a great deal in editorial cartooning today, and neither do the editors. Damn few of them want cartoons that say something that should be said, politically, that is. As long as that continues, cartoonists are going to be in bad shape, but not as bad shape as the publishers and owners of the newspapers will be in when the people realize they're not reading anything. View quote
Paul Conrad