Reading Quotes

• The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Science
  • Reading

• In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Book
  • Should
  • Details

• For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Reading
  • Escape
  • Fingers

• Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Important
  • Reading

• 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.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also being focused on in front of the camera and balancing mommy life at the same time. I just want to continue to move forward.

  

  Kyla Pratt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

  

  Bert Hellinger
  • Writing
  • Humans
  • Greatness

• When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mind
  • Young
  • Sound

• My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Reading
  • Single

• I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Women
  • Fire
  • Animal

• I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Reading

• You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Reading

• In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • Reading

• I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

  

  Ellen Potter
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Garden

• I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

  

  Courtney Gains
  • Time
  • Good
  • Cold

• Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Women
  • Book
  • Stop

• I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even really known if not for spending too much time reading about myself on the Internet.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Reading
  • Movies
  • Internet

• When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Great
  • Women
  • Father

• If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • History
  • Deep

• If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Book
  • Childhood

• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  

  James Joyce
  • Life
  • Reading

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