Reading Quotes - Page 18

• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Book, Writing

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• Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

  Benjamin Carson

  Book, Library, World

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  Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

  David Bowie

  Book, Oxford, Long

  "FMO’s Final Interview With David Bowie". Interview with Johnnny, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• You are what you read.

  Esko Valtaoja

  Book, Writing, Personality

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• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, School, Mean

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• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• Don't believe everything you read.

  Molly Sims

  Trust, Confidence, Believe

  "Molly Sims Defends Josh Duhamel" by Brian Orloff, people.com. November 11, 2009.

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• Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Book, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017

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• I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Novelists, Way

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Passion, Illumination

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Novelists, Needs

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Understanding

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• The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Christian, Teacher

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Learning, Design

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• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pride, Littles, Hasty

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• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Writing, Creativity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Library

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Giving, Judging

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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