Reading Quotes (722 Quotes)

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

An interesting game, no doubt about it. Reading Holy Name is a tough team to play against because of the way that they play. They did nice job and their big kids are bigger that we were. I'm very happy to get out of here with a win and we are now guarante

No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole time, no way.

Music was big in the circles that I ran in, and they certainly weren't leftists or alienated. All the high school kids went to The Music Box and The Village Swinger every weekend, and they danced their asses off. These were Dance Bands, again. Otis Reading was big with the college people then.

How can we have an educated electorate if people aren't reading. This is a drive to get literature back in people's lives and have a public discussion on issues that are in this particular book.

It's not just art for art's sake. It's to demonstrate the importance of reading for all people, young and old.

I'm usually catching up on things I should have been doing while I was filming - a pile of mail and bills. I like reading. I like watching a lot of sports on TV - football, boxing. I like cricket a lot. I try to get down to Lords to watch Yorkshire if they're playing down there.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Colton's a great running back. We really thought Colton would get one on us there. What we wanted to do was take away all those other ones they've been getting. I think that we did a good job of reading our keys tonight and staying home where we needed to be.

My reading is that there was concern in the financial community that with the absence of Greenspan, we crazy politicians will no longer respect the independence of the Fed. Bush's going there today, quite sensibly, was an indication that the president intends to continue to defer to the Fed on monetary policy.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -'' ''Oh it is only a novel'' replies the young lady while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda '' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

I'm good at reading people.

From the sight-reading abilities of the students who came to the reading sessions, 95 of whom were not music majors, to the great questions and comments we got from students in the classes, to the amazing enthusiasm and energy of the jam session, everywhere we went we could feel the intelligence and open-mindedness of Harvard undergraduates.

Beautiful spaces create beautiful minds(C). The Wren's Nest's backyard of rolling land lovingly renovated into a cross-generational reading garden invites reading, storytelling and reflection with flowers, plants, trees, bushes, benches, paths and other touches.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

When it came to the second reading, there was no public comment, and we felt there was no need to delay it any longer.

We're erring on the side of believing the high reading. We decided to shut that gym down and do more testing to find out if it's zero, if it's high or if it's somewhere in the middle.

We work on that a lot in practice. We have players on the bench and coaches always watching the other team to see where the holes are. Allison Clarke is doing a really good job of reading more and making anticipation plays.

The decline was sharper than expected, but the reading was still respectable and in line with the averages that were in place right before the hurricane hit in late August.

Today is a day where we celebrate reading, particularly about Dr. Seuss. I was off-track this month, so I volunteered to come in and read.

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Gore's attack on the Texas education system is a thinly veiled attempt to discredit the education reform and accountability measures that have taken place in states around the nation. While Gov. Bush is offering bold reforms for our public schools through accountability, high standards, and reading, Al Gore is making the case for the status quo.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

My uncle often played the devil's advocate just to get a rise out of somebody, but was extremely giving, passionate about everything what he was reading, religion, what he was doing, politics.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

I was one of those kids who did a lot of homework, and my favorite thing was reading, ... Both my parents really valued public education.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Books have to be read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.

We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

I'm not much of a newspaper reader, but I like to write stories. I thought I knew how to write a newspaper story, but in reading the textbook there's a lot to it, and I'm not just saying that.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.

When you retire, sitting alone at home, reading the newspaper and watching television, you get old fast. This keeps you young.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

We've come a long way at reading each other's body language at the line of scrimmage when we're watching what the defense is doing to us, ... He's come a long way on that and he's brought me along with him.

The governor continues to be in good spirits, and he is awake, reading, walking around and conducting state business.