Reading Quotes
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Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant -
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
William H. Gass
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When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit -
Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
Confucius -
We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.
Keith Barry -
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
Alex Sharp -
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
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I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.
Annaleigh Ashford -
I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
Maria Semple -
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
Patti Smith -
I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
Edward Enninful -
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
Kami Garcia -
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
Elle Macpherson
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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
William Shakespeare -
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
Kabir -
I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
Nicholas Stoller -
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
Suzanne Somers -
Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.
Mary H.K. Choi -
It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.
Darryl Sutter
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Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.
J. C. Ryle -
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.
David Grann -
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
Margaret Mahy -
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
Claire Messud