Reading Quotes
- Page 22Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
Shigeru Miyamoto
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
James Laughlin
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Gillian Anderson
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.
Hugh Mackay
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Frederik Pohl
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Roberto Bolano
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
Fred Savage
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Fay Godwin
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
Edwidge Danticat
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
Richard Powers
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
Chris Hughes
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
Jennifer Aniston
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'
Geoffrey Rush
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
Corbin Bleu
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
Jenna Bush
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
Michelle Williams
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Lec
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.
Elle Macpherson
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.
Gary Oldman