Quotes About Reading

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'.

and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.

nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Within seconds he was reading the IMDb profile of this actress, a veteran of numerous television commercials and a few indie films.

So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups spent the whole weekend closeted on the top floor, having a

nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere

The snow moved a little and gave me a void in front of my face - air for a moment. Most importantly it kept me from panicking, and let me open my eyes. There was a dim blue-grey light. I could hear Arsibalt saying Just enough to read by! and Lio answering If only you'd thought to bring a book.

too] narrowly on the Mormon experience to the exclusion of forces operating within the larger society." "Notwithstanding," he proclaimed it "a valuable contribution to Mormon history. . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the development of Mormon racial policies.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?