Quotes About Reading

Le verbe lire ne supporte pas l'impératif. Aversion qu'il aime partager avec quelques autres : le verbe « aimer »Ã¢â'¬Â¦ le verbe « rêver »Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

Le nostre ragioni di leggere sono strane quanto le nostre ragioni di vivere. E nessuno è autorizzato a chiederci conto di questa intimità.

When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul. Cette lecture lui est une compagnie qui ne prend la place d'aucune autre, mais qu'aucune autre compagnie ne saurait remplacer.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Quel che abbiamo letto di più bello lo dobbiamo quasi sempre a una persona cara. Ed è a una persona cara che subito ne parleremo. Forse proprio perché la peculiarità del sentimento, come del desiderio di leggere, è il fatto di preferire. Amare vuol dire, in ultima analisi, far dono delle nostre preferenze a coloro che preferiamo. E queste preferenze condivise popolano l'invisibile cittadella della nostra libertà. Noi siamo abitati da libri e da amici.

Releer no es repetirse, es ofrecer una prueba siempre nueva de un amor infatigable.

Mais nous relisons surtout gratuitement, pour le plaisir de la répétition, la joie des retrouvailles, la mise à l'épreuve de l'intimité.

Mais c'est, plus quotidiennement, le refuge du livre contre le crépitement de la pluie, le silencieux éblouissement des pages contre la cadence du métro, le roman planqué dans le tiroir de la secrétaire, la petite lecture du prof quand planchent ses élèves, et l'élève de fond de classe lisant en douce, en attendant de rendre une copie blanche...

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love). Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.

It's rough being without a librarian for a whole month, isn't it?" Starr Lackawanna said. "Yes!" we all said.

Reading Plan • 30 minutes per day of Scripture time • 30 minutes per day reading on business and leadership • Google News daily • Read HBR and Fast Company monthly • Read twelve books on business and leadership this year

I am still, relentlessly, reading Agee, and Flannery, too. Two of the writers who fired me to write post–Marine Corps, when I needed it, were Mr. McGuane and Mr. Harrison, and their books are always nearby, well thumbed. And Kawabata and James Salter, both of whom floor me.

C'è sempre qualcos'altro da leggere. - Celestine Clochette -

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther.

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

Mais le plus beau voyage dans le temps que je connaisse c'est celui que procure la lecture. On vous croit dans cette pièce alors que vous vagabondez dans d'autres siècles. Et cela sans faire le moindre bruit.