Quotes of: Easy-reading Keyword

I didn’t fire my gun. I gave it a promotion.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Webster’s—the original high definition entertainment.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I’m for a big government. A big government contraction.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Politics isn’t dirty. And neither are politicians. No, politicians are filthy.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

The only class I studied religiously was Christianity 101.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

So many trees, so few chimneys.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

The Fault in Our Stars

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible. At the poetry reading I read a poem. A prophecy I wrote down. Almost couldn't go through with it. But it came out hurried and hot and by the end my tongue was on fire.

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some may hear it when you read it, others may tear it when you share it.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.

Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

The Brooklyn Follies

Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked before each man, And terror crept behind.

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

The Book of Lost Things

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Sherman Alexie

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that...

Jonathan Kozol