Quotes About Reading

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

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.

Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.