Quotes with reading

  • And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
  • No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
  • At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
  • Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
  • There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
  • He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
  • The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Groucho Marx From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
    Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Schneier ... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
    Schneier, Bruce (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • John Ruskin A book worth reading is worth buying.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Boris Becker A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Jane Austen A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Ben Jonson A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
    Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William Styron A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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  • Will Rogers A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Will Rogers A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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