Quotes About Reading

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The bloody book of lawYou shall yourself read in the bitter letterAfter your own sense.

You two are book-men.

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

But that night When on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd And felt most deeply in what world I was; With unextinguish'd taper I kept watch, Reading at intervals

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations . . . The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

Ideology is the arrogance of the finite subject who speaks as if he were the ultimate legislator, as if she had been appointed the final judge. The best prevention against the inveiglement of ideology is the practice of reading, in which the calculable well-formedness of various logics is constantly being fractured by a pervasive textuality.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon.

we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction,—as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff