Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Reading

Reading

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.--Chinese proverb
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.--P. J. O'Rourke
Book Week brings us together to talk about books and reading and, out of our knowledge and love of books, to put the cause of children's reading squarely before the whole community and, community by community, across the whole nation. For a great nation is a reading nation.--Frederic Melcher
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.--Mark Twain
Do not read good books--life is too short for that--read only the best.--Ernest Dimnet
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.--Richard Hughes
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - January 27, 2004)
Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.--Murial Clark
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.--Aldous Huxley
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.--Louis L'Amour (Education of a Wandering Man)
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.--Elizabeth Hardwick
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.--Anthony Trollope
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!--Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.--Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (Pensées Diverses)
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.--Charles Lamb (Last Essays of Elia)
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.--Japanese proverb
If you wish to be a good reader--read.--Epictetus
...it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.--Jane Austen
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.--Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.--Jonathan Daniels (Three Presidents and their Books)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.--Lady Mary Wortley Montague
One must be an inventor to read well. ...there is then creative reading as well as creative writing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("The American Scholar" address, Harvard Univ. 8/31/1837)
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hours spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.--Rose Macauley
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.--Nikki Giovanni
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.--Katherine Mansfield
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.--Ezra Pound
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of an educated mind is simply put: read to lead.--Cicero
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.--Christopher Morley
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.--John Locke
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.--Cynthia Heimel
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine Febryary 4, 2003)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.--Ausustus Hare
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.--Richard M. Nixon (Leaders)
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.--Thornton Wilder
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.--H. L. Menchen
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.--Elie Wiesel
This habit of reading ... is your pass to the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for his creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.--Anthony Trollope
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.-- Holbrook Jackson
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.--Andre Gide ("Third Imaginary Interview" Pretexts)
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.--Descartes ( Discourses on Method)
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.--Kenko Yoshida
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar.--Samuel Johnson
Today a reader--tomorrow a leader.--W. Fusselman
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea.--Lawrence Clark Powell (Books in my Baggage)
We could revolutionize education if we asked every person connected with the education of children, "Read any good books lately?"--Susan Ohanian
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.--Ellen Gilcrist
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.--Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.--Storm Jameson (Parthian Words)
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.--Thomas Carlyle
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.--James Earl Jones
While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.--Cyril Connolly (The Unquiet Grave)
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...--Lawrence Clark Powell (The Little Package)
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.--Charles "Tremendous" Jones
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.--Ray Bradbury