Reading Quotes - Page 21

• Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

  John Selden

  Men, Comfort, Different

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.98

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• I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

  Richelle Mead

  Baby, Girlfriend, Lying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you
  breathe.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Book, Air

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• Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

  Eudora Welty

  Angel, Singing, Chekhov

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• It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

  William James

  Bible, Religious, Book

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.173, Routledge

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• One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bible, Religious, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.378, Penguin

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• Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Retirement, Sex

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Giving, Water

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Book, Men, Feelings

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• Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Men, Leaves Of Grass

  'So Long!'

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• From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, People

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• I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Family And Friends, Remember

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• Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

  Charles Scribner IV

  Book, Communication, Mean

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• The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.

  Steve Donoghue

  Epic, Years, Stories

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• A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

  Maya Beiser

  Summer, Spain, Culture

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• Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

  Richard Smalley

  Blow, Origin Of Life, Evolution

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• I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

  Jake Epstein

  Halloween, Men, Years

  "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

  Alexander Koch

  Kings, Book, America

  "'Under The Dome' Premiere: Alexander Koch And Britt Robertson On Junior And Angie’s Twisted Romance". Interview with Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

  Emilie Autumn

  Book, People, Listening

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• When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Play, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Kids, Careers

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Character, Writing

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, Preparation, Awful

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Powerful, Book, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

  Alan Tudyk

  Rumination, World, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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