Quotes About Reading

You can decide for yourself what truth there might be in that concern after reading this book. :)

If you're reading this book, there's a strong probability that you're a privileged person. You can read. You have time to read. You're perched high in the clouds. It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.

If you're reading this book, there's a strong probability that you're a privileged person. You can read. You have time to read. You're perched high in the clouds.

We'll need you to unlock your desk, sir." "Sorry," Dreyfuss said. "Not until I've read this form." "You haven't…looked at it." "And I'm a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dyslexic.

Por un instante pensó en ir a su laboratorio, pero volvió a su primitiva idea y continuó caminando en dirección a su casa. Un buen libro, de los que yo no se utilizaban, para practicar el viejo arte de la lectura.

Los que no sentían el arte, los que no se emocionaban leyendo un libro o lloraban ante una obra de arte, estaban muertos.

Leer siempre la había relajado. Era un privilegio. Sumergirse en una buena novela equivalía a penetrar en otro mundo, olvidar, sentir, experimentar emociones únicas.

João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.

Let others brag about the pages they have written; I'm proud of those I've read.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Ayudar a que la persona encuentre ese libro que le habla, y que tiene significado especial para ella, debe de ser maravilloso.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Ah, a literatura!... - exclamou. - Meu amigo, ler não é pensar a sós: ler é dialogar! Porém o diálogo da leitura é um diálogo platónico: o teu interlocutor constitui uma ideia. Contudo não se trata de uma ideia imutável: ao dialogares com ela, modifica-la, torna-la tua, chegas a acreditar na sua existência autónoma...

El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.

Skaitymas protui - tolygu fiziniai pratimai k?nui.

Had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth…. I believe… that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens, to shoot his like in the name of some idea is more problematic than for someone who has read no Dickens.

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.