Reading Quotes
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How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
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There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.
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I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.
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My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
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People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.
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He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.
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I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
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When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart, incredibly witty, strong but emotionally vulnerable, passionate to a fault - and, well, the Scottish accent doesn't hurt! I actually stopped reading at several points to swoon over something he said... he's really that good.
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In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!
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If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
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Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum.
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When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.
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I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
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A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.
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I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.
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There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.
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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
