Quotes About Reading

Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

La lectura es a la inteligencia lo que el ejercicio físico es al cuerpo.

Como ella, Germán sólo leía por placer, pero quisiera o no, cada nuevo libro le enseñaba algo desconocido sobre sí mismo.

Cuanto más leía, más insondables le parecían los abismos de su ignorancia.

The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it…

el viaje de la lectura pasa muchas veces por terrenos difíciles que exigen capacidad de emoción inteligente, deseos de comprender al otro y de acercarse a u lenguaje distinto al de nuestras tiranías cotidianas.

Lexical scope means that we can determine the scope of a variable by reading our code.

the truth is JavaScript actually makes two passes over your page: in the first pass it reads all the function definitions, and in the second it begins executing your code. So

He said] when you read the Bible17, you must think that here and now God is speaking with me. . . . He wasn't as abstract as the Greek teachers and all the others. Rather, from the very beginning, he taught us that we had to read the Bible as it was directed at us, as the word of God directly to us. Not something general, not something generally applicable, but rather with a personal relationship to us.

for Luther the Bible was not a book like Aristotle's Ethics or like a volume of Livy or Cicero. It was something entirely apart from every book in the world. It was the living Word of God and therefore could not be read like any other book. It was inspired by God, and when one read it, one must do so in such a way—with such closeness and intimacy—that one fully intended to feel and smell the breezes of heaven.

We know that immediately upon entering the monastery, Luther was lent one that was bound in red leather, for he recollected this often in his later years. It seems that Luther did not receive the book lightly, for he not only read it but almost devoured it. He read it over and over until he was inordinately and perhaps even peculiarly familiar with it. This would of course have everything to do with the events of his future and the future itself.

As always, Paula Bonhoeffer's annual orchestrations of the Christmas holidays were especially beautiful, incorporating Bible reading and hymns in such a way that even those who were not particularly religious felt included.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says.

Er sagt "Ich kann dich lesen wie ein offenes Buch" und er glaubt, dass er jedes Buch, das er liest, auch verstehen kann.

I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there were white spaces between each line; the white spaces are there to remind you of the unspoken, unwritten truth. When one only reads the words and does not read what is not written in the book, then one will never learn to understand.

El proceso y las condiciones históricas de enunciación modifican todos los enunciados. El sentido es un efecto frágil (y no sustancial) relacionado con la enunciación: emerge en la actividad de escribir-leer y no está enlazado a las palabras sino a los contextos de las palabras… No hay modo de que un texto sea idéntico a su doble.

What's wrong with you?' growled the wolf. Can't you see that I'm a big and dangerous wolf? I'm sure you are, replied the pig. But couldn't you be big and dangerous somewhere else? We're trying to read.

As a former student put it: "In a liberry it's hard to avoid reading." When

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy.