Reading Quotes

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education, Able, Worth

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
Russell Banks

Life, Home, Book

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
Jennifer Aniston

Beauty, Become, Wanting

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne

Good, Book, Trying

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann

End, Single, Year

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
Michael J. Fox

Love, Learning, Today

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti

Love, Music, Learning

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
Lil Wayne

Dead, Read, Weird

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

Emotional, State, Anyone

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Joan Didion

Simple, Him, Rather

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield

Men, Knowledge, Learning

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger

Life, Girl, Her

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.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

Work, Great, Moment

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera

Love, History, Art

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton

Write, Books, Fishing

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.
Tom Felton

Time, Book, Old

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
Terry Pratchett

Time, Book, Old

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.
Robertson Davies

Age, Great, Experience

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis

Good, Writing, Public

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

Sunday, Lazy, Perfect

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Good, Powerful

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
Johnny Cash

Time, Alone, Writing

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau

Death, Long, After

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?
Tori Amos

Read, Somebody, Rule

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov

Life, Person, Understand

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Rihanna

Love, Person, Enjoy

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Good, God

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, Person

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