President Bush is the fittest president in history. They said it's because he spends a lot of time exercising. See a lot of our previous presidents wasted that time reading. .... A lot of people are every critical of President Bush for taking the entire month of August off for his vacation. But his staff points out, there's nothing at the White House he can't do at the ranch because the ranch is fully equipped. It's got the treadmill, the weight room, the jogging path, the big screen TV, they get Nickelodeon. It's got everything he would do.
Reading Quotes (722 Quotes)
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.
I'm not going to make excuses. Reading did well and I think they'll make it to the Premiership, and we had injuries, but the players I had on the pitch should have done better after going two up. Our only consolation is that nothing will now get in the way of our attempt at Premiership safety.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, ''surrounding'' a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Reading is important.
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
The public library system of America is one of the great treasures of this country, and reading is the entry way to everything -- to personal fulfillment as well as to the future dynamism of our whole society, ... I think Laura Bush's leadership in this and her role model (status) as a professional librarian and teacher and as the host of this festival is just very, very exciting.
Theology never changes. A man's heart is the same. The Gospel is the same. There have been no additions to the Gospel that was preached in the first century, and there is no difference in the reading of the events of the first century morally, they're still the same. The same old sins, the same old problems, basically, that they faced in Egypt we face today in America.
The bond market liked the inflation data. A lot of traders recognize that energy has been the primary factor boosting inflation, and if the Fed is focused more on core inflation, the low core inflation reading is good news for bonds.
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
A strong background in reading skills is the basis for all other disciplines, including mathematics and science,
It all stems from a fearfulness of well-meaning people. We believe in parental responsibility, and that you should take care of what your children are reading. But it's not your responsibility to tell a whole class of kids what they should read.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading. We would hope some of the benefit would spill over to lesser-known titles.
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
I think everybody, both active workers and retirees, will be pleasantly surprised with the package after reading or hearing everything that's been reported by the media.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
A community reading garden brings people together and improves the environment. Gardens can be an enriching, stress-free zone. When the garden is devoted to reading, it adds the benefit of encouraging a love of books and learning.
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
When kids move around a lot their grades suffer. Studies show when a student moves three or more times during elementary, they fall over a year behind in reading scores. In eighth grade, they're four times more likely to drop out of school.
A vibrant book festival with internationally renowned authors helps to inspire children and fosters a love of reading. When children and young adults have the opportunity to interact with authors, it's just magical
We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.
Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
He has a real knack for coming up with balls. He's picked off some passes and he's excellent at reading quarterbacks. A lot of that is instinctive, but he's gotten better over time. He's a kid back there that surprises you with some of the breaks he gets on the ball.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Getting your kids to read around other kids can help improve their level of reading greatly, ... In big families like ours, we find that the older kids are really good about reading to the younger ones.
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
I had never even heard of cross country. I had to go to Barnes Nobles and start reading. The first few meets, I didn't know what I was doing.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
Before the Internet, direct marketers didn't have access to every article you were reading. There is a fine line between targeting and stalking, and the advertisers and direct marketers have crossed the line.
I'm the wife who wakes up in the morning, not to a cup of coffee presented by my husband of 30 years to reopen what we called the 'endless conversation of marriage,' but to an open book that I was reading, in an effort to banish the memories of 530 p.m. on the day our world changed forever,
I'm kind of used to safety. It's the same concept as corner, except more complicated. You have to make more reads and think quicker. Instead of reading the receiver, you read the quarterback.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public -- a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization -- which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.