Quotes About Reading

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God.

La sección más importante de mi casa es la biblioteca, donde guardo verdaderos tesoros.

Gignomai took a book off the top of the pile, glanced at the spine (Caecilius on Prosody) and opened it. It began with a beautiful illuminated letter B and went downhill from there.

Reading it in the evening by flashlight during his walking tour of Corsica, he later claimed to his Berkeley friend Haakon Chevalier, was one of the great experiences of his life. It snapped him out of his depression.

Robert often displayed a sense of humor. Upon seeing Karl Compton's two-year-old daughter pretending to read a small red book—which just happened to be on the topic of birth control—Robert looked over at the very pregnant Mrs. Compton and quipped, "A little late.

Während sie die Stufen zur Bibliothek hinablief, konnte Furia die Geschichten schon riechen: den besten Geruch der Welt.

Einige Läden verkauften ausschließlich Bücher, die der Kunde als Kind gelesen hatte, und boten eine Geld-zurück-Garantie, wenn sie ihm nicht mehr so gut gefielen wie damals.

Reading," I said. "Books. It's pretty sexy. I like women who read." - Rip

Women are turned on by what they read. We are more imaginative that way. So when we read something sexy…it makes us better lovers." - Simone Fortuna in Anti-Nice Guy by Kailin Gow

We had to write a lot of essays in school. I had a very good teacher who taught us English, V. Siddharthacharry. I enjoyed the early process of learning to structure my essays. When I came home after finishing school at eighteen, I started writing extensively. I liked to be meticulous. Initially, I read a lot on western philosophy but also made notes on the administration and constitutions of different nations and civilizations.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.

I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

I don't know if anyone can do a reading for other people, but I do think that we all have an intuition and that if we can follow it we can hone it and it can be used to do a lot of good.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.