Quotes About Reading

The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

I'll be glad to be rid of you. When a man sinks to reading fashion journals - no, it's worse than that. When a man finds himself plumbing their depths, seeking arcane knowledge of no use to him whatsoever ... Oh, it's your corrupting influence. I shall be glad to see the back of you, Noirot, and return to my life.' 'It annoys you to be a guardian angel,' she said.

What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?" She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.

That's because your idea of exercise is reading in bed until your arms hurt from holding up your Kindle

Scary movies and books were too much for her—she read only romance.

I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog—it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.

God's strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

There should be no rush to have a child reading before age six or seven. That's developmentally the natural time.

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head by reading

I figured I would be able to rely on big-name historians whom I have yet to read and that this would be immensely pleasurable. And then I read the books. History writers should be put not in the jail but under it.

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.

They lost concentration. After a year I could read headlines, I was told by a friend whose husband had died three years before

Nei momenti difficili, mi era stato insegnato fin dall'infanzia, leggi, impara, datti da fare, rivolgiti alla letteratura. Essere informati significava non perdere il controllo.

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

their reading: Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. On the fifth day

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity