Reading Quotes (722 Quotes)

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

Thinking, not growth, makes manhood. Accustom yourself, therefore, to thinking. Set yourself to understand whatever you see or read. To join thinking with reading is one of the first maxims, and one of the easiest operations.

It is with great respect that we recognize these honorees for their commitment to excellence and their unique creative expression, By encouraging audiences of all ages to rediscover the magic of books and reading, Ms. Rowling has truly made this world a better place.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life.

I had just met her at the polls on Election Day. When she gave up the reading of the votes in order for her to fulfill her obligation to her church, I just happened to learn through that what a strong Christian she was.

Good lighting is the key to creating a cozy feel in your bedroom. You should have the ability to lower the lights so they are dim and romantic or have them on brighter for reading.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

He has some difficulty reading. Over the past couple of months I've learned how complicated the human brain is. Where most people take for granted their ability to put together whole sentences or convey their thoughts into words, Drew is having some difficulty with. He can speak. He just has difficulty at times expressing in words what it is he wants to say.

They need to understand the history to understand what they're reading.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

There should be no anxiety. Reading the Program Commission report, I have only one conclusion We have very strong federations, and strong federations should have nothing to fear.

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

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

There are a huge number of distractions while in the vehicle, which could be eating, conversation, any kind of communication device, disciplining children and even reading, but there are a number of outside distractions too such as watching road construction and cows in the field.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

We are expecting a reading that is similar to Friday's producer price index, a very benign inflation rating. Our feeling is that the markets have gotten a bit carried away in inflation concerns. They've heard Greenspan say that inflation is showing up on the radar screen and they're waiting for it to show up any day now. But the inflationary picture remains just as good as ever.

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

About one-third of our initial program was devoted to fishing-related activities, another third was hunting related and the other third dealt with other outdoor activities, such as canoeing, map reading and compass reading. We thought we'd get a more balanced and bigger audience that way.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

We have the kind of strong leadership in here that maybe we haven't had since Chris Chelios 1990-99. Jim has been leading by example. He defends his teammates and is terrific at reading the game. It's time for him.

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Thirty-two jockeys were tested today before racing. They are given something called a no-go test which registers either a green or red light. Richard Quinn was the only jockey to receive a red light. It's a borderline result. A reading of below 17 micrograms is not sufficient to have any effect upon a rider's performance.

The whole idea was to show kids how much fun reading could be. I think we accomplished that.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Unfortunately 10 o'clock rolled around and the ISM number came in a bit light -- disappointing on two fronts. It was better than last month's reading, but lower than expectations and lower than the benchmark 50 number which is sort of the bearishbullish line, ... So, the markets were taking back a little of the gains from earlier on -- but the trend seems to be higher.

Many have been speculating on the future of New Orleans. Reading these stories has given me hope that it has one. New Orleans is an intoxicating brew of rotting and generating, a feeling of death and life simultaneously occurring and inextricably linked, ... The city can drive a sober-minded person insane, but it feeds the dreamer. It feeds the dreamer stories, music and food. Really great food.

We send a notice to Sunrise suggesting that the teachers identify students who are having difficulty in reading. Reading is the key to learning.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

We also learned quickly that she could handle it. It wasn't like she couldn't understand us. I didn't realize how good she was at reading lips and how good she would do without the help. We learned that on the visit. She did fine.

Reading expands the minds of children, ... It allows us to use our imagination and helps us develop our critical thinking skills. I hope these books will help spur a lifetime love of learning among our children.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

From a first reading, it's a judgment that declares null and void the German implementation law, not the European arrest warrant.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.