Quotes About Reading

I libri non sono la riserva dei nostalgici che hanno tempo da perdere. Sono il segreto di chi di tempo ne ha così poco che è costretto a inventarlo.

I can't read Mason & Dixon , since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it!

The ability to read is a prerequisite of baking.

Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, "But I just looked an hour ago!

If you love books, I will give you some to take with you, and one day I will introduce you to the writers of the books.

So vertraulich, so heimlich hab' ich nicht leicht ein Plätzchen gefunden, und dahin lass' ich mein Tischchen aus dem Wirtshause bringen und meinen Stuhl, trinke meinen Kaffee da und lesen meinen Homer.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

The Roman philosopher Cicero said of the discipline of reading: No other pleasure suits every occasion, every age or every place. But the study of letters is the food of youth, the delight of old age, a delight at home and no burden abroad; it stays with us at night, and goes with us on our travels, near and far.

Nothing substitutes for what can be found when we embrace the world of books.

The key question I learned to ask myself when I read was, "What is the author trying to say?

Homer: I downloaded an app! It's for those audio books! Sluggo: You're going to teach your ears to read?!

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

There is no thief worse than a bad book.

I'm a bookaholic on the road to recovery. Ha, not really. I'm on the road to the bookstore.

Nothing is more unfair to an author than to read or "dip into" his book before seeing what he has to say about it in his Preface.

Think of the pleasure of taking down your well-thumbed Treasure Island. You meant only to read just a little but you got to the place where Black Bill comes tapping down the highway, each tap striking terror deeper into the heart of the trembling boy in the doorway and you were lost in the story with a child hanging over your shoulder breathlessly waiting the next word. A pleasure shared is a pleasure doubled when it comes to sharing the books of your boyhood with your lad.