You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Maimonides

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

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

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
Lawrence Halprin

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

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Jo Brand

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Marilyn vos Savant

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
Shel Silverstein

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Tim Vine

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
Dorothy Day

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy