Quotes About Reading

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Hay quien se hunde en la lectura de novelas para distraerse de sí mismo, para olvidar sus penas...

Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

Conque tu hermano Lázaro —me decía Don Manuel— se empeña en que leas? Pues lee, hija mía, lee y dale así gusto. Sé que no has de leer sino cosa buena; lee aunque sea novelas. No son mejores las historias que llaman verdaderas. Vale más que leas que no el que te alimentes de chismes y comadrerías del pueblo. Pero lee sobre todo libros de piedad que te den contento de vivir, un contento apacible y silencioso.

Fascism is cured by reading, racism is cured by traveling.

Leer, leer, leer, vivir la vida que otros soñaron. Leer, leer, leer, el alma olvida las cosas que pasaron. Se quedan las que quedan, las ficciones, las flores de la pluma, las solas, las humanas creaciones, el poso de la espuma. Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

Kendilerini ve ac?lar?n? unutmak için roman okumaya sald?ran kimseler vard?r.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Ler, ler, ler, viver a vida que outros sonharam...

Amaba el libro, pero el libro espontáneamente elegido. Ella entendía que el vicio o la virtud de leer dependían del primer libro. Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan sospechosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim to have, while the opposite trend was found for watching television.

Among the many intellectual pursuits available, reading is currently perhaps the most often mentioned flow activity around the world. Solving

Tuhat kirjaa luettuaan ihminen alkaa aavistaa masentavan totuuden. Kymmenentuhatta kirjaa tekee hänet surulliseksi

I think books are like rain, wherever rain falls, things grow. So hopefully wherever our books land, the person who reads them will gain knowledge, and his or her mind will grow. This in turn, will help humanity grow. We will always be proud of our secret library and i am sure that good things will continue to flow from it"-[Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption In a Town Under Siege by Mike Thompson] 5

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Ali, upamti, pismen gleda u knjigu, nau?en gleda u mudrog, a mudar gleda u nebo ili u suknju, što može i nepismen...

Reading is really like trying to hit one tossed stone with another; the consonants are the stones, the vowels their velocity.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which they can stand before they commit the power of their body and mind to the world as it is, or as they might wish to remake it.

When we were growing up, he was scolded a lot because he hated going to school. Brother had trouble with reading and writing, but he's good with people and has a remarkable memory. He never forgets anything he hears and can pick up most languages after just a little while of hearing it. He knows some Chinese, English, and Russian, too. He's always been good at fixing machines.