Reading Quotes - Page 20

• Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

  Ernest Dimnet

  Mean, Names, People

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• If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Ifs, Reading For Kids

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• Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Father, Night

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• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

  Lorde

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.rookiemag.com. January 02, 2014.

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• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Thomas Perry

  Patience, Hard Work, Character

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Two, Important Events

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• I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Brother, Powerful, Punishment

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• I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.

  Lea Seydoux

  Art, Years, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Spelling is improved when reading is done.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Done, Spelling

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• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Inspirational, Memorable, Mind

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1997). “The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories”, p.73, UPNE

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• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  Lana Del Rey

  Stories, Tabloids, Nine

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  My Family, Hanging Out, Gym

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Is the King in The Tudors". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Acceptance, Practice

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• A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Simple, Worry, Intellectual

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.147, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
  van Vogt.

  Philip K. Dick

  Writing, Doubt, Twelve

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.22, Melville House

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• To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, May, Pleasure

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Curiosity, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.369

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• ... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

  Nora Ephron

  Dirty, People, Four

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Science, Past, Men

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey (1954). “The judgment of history”

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Morning, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.275, Delphi Classics

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• For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Writing, Done

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• We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

  William Hazlitt

  Romance, Facts, Common

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Middle, Antiquity

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.148, University of Toronto Press

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• I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs!
  Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot
  and the f-kin' kettle.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Kings, Kids

  "No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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