Reading Books Quotes - Page 8

• When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Reading, Pride, Cities

  "America’s Cities Are Innovating for the Future" by Eric E. Schmidt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poetry, His Love, Love Poems

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

  Book, Boring, Notes

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• Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Mean, Community

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Awards

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• The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Family, Book, Reading

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• I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

  Megan Fox

  Book, Reading, Chance

  "Transformers - Megan Fox interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

  Anis Mansour

  Book, Reading, People

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• Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

  LZ Granderson

  Reading, Book, Differences

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Graphic Arts Books

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• I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Penguin

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• One must be an inventor to read well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Creative Writers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Book, Reading, Science

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

  Lee Child

  Book, Reading, Airplane

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• I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, Reading, Parent

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• It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1633, Delphi Classics

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• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  Gale Sayers

  Moving Up, Pages Turning, Nfl

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• Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Reading, Opposites

  "I Am Just a Reader" by Deborah Plummer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Life loiters at the book's first page,--
  Ah! could we turn the leaf.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.136, Everyman's Library

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• We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

  Romain Rolland

  Book

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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