Reading Quotes
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
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I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.
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I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
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Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
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One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.
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In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
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Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
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People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.
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We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.
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The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
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As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
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It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
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A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. (p. 94)
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Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.
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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.
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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
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I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
