Quotes About Reading

I want to read and write and be very quiet.

I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our heads that books were almost the most important thing in the world, second only to getting a good education.

Bhawardwaj squints as she reads the message, and she laughs. "I don't even know what that is." Ayda looks at the catalog image. It's the thing that fits on a backpack or harness, and has giant extendable spikes. She sends back, All right, I believe that it's real, but it doesn't look very practical.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books. They contain the condensed experiences of humanity. To live fully, one has to read widely.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

More people fear snakes than full stops, so they recoil when a long sentence comes hissing across the page.

For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

A reader is nice, and it's portable. It's a marvelous invention. Buying books for the paper is like buying beer for the bottles. It's what's inside that gets you drunk!

When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5

Few of the Arabs could read, but beauty of speech was a virtue which all Arab parents desired for their children. A man's worth was largely assessed by his eloquence, and the crown of eloquence was poetry.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope[5] and the books of the sophists.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

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Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.