Quotes of: Easy-reading Keyword

I keep odd hours. I keep them stuffed under my mattress.

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’ll write something that’s 111% true. It’ll be so true that it’ll be 100% false.

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 most deadly combination known to man is low IQ and high testosterone.

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

When everything is working out for you, it means you are in the wrong gym.

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 older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here

Guys Read: Funny Business

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, t...

Hearts in Atlantis

To commit myself to do the whole will of God; to be able to invite God to look into my heart and to know that He will find there no opposition to His will, nothing but deep love and a real desire to serve Him--this is what it means to be a sanctified...

Holiness and High Country: Devotional Readings for Every Day

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't...

Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they ...

Lois Lowry

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.

84, Charing Cross Road

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to t...

An Abundance of Katherines

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from ...

The Hunt for Red October

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete acc...

How to Read Slowly

I knew it! ” “Are we allowed to speak yet?” said Ron grumpily. Hermione ignored him. “Nicolas Flamel,” she whispered dramatically, “is the !” This didn’t have quite the effect she’d expected. “The what?” said Harry and Ron. “O...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading a...

How to Be a Woman

I had a dream about you. You were writing a book on how to write a book, and I was reading a book on how to read a book. You thought we were meant to be together, and I thought we were meant to be in a library. 

I had a dream about you 2

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body Language

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in.

Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs

If you read and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the other hand, if you should be assigned , and you start to read it and it doesn't work for you, just put it aside and forget the whole thing. Tell the teacher I s...

Rite of Passage