Quotes 81 till 100 of 309.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
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I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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I keep reading between the lies.
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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.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
(2011) -
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999) -
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
(2011) -
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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