Quotes of: Enjoy-reading Keyword

People share books they love. They want to spread to friends and family the goodness that they felt when reading the book or the ideas they found in the pages. In sharing a loved book, a reader is trying to share the same excitement, pleasure, chills...

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at the liberty to put forward a ...

Life

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Death on the Air and Other Stories

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

Dead Poets Society

The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

Daytripper

I went on a blind date—with a descendent of Helen Keller.

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

Men are from vaginas, and women are from women.

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 have a strong opinion on steroids.

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

Sexy is fine. So is OK.

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 problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Fahrenheit 451

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

Freedom from Fear

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

Bagombo Snuff Box

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

I never saw sad men who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue We prisoners called the sky, And at every happy cloud that passed In such strange freedom by.

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Bitten

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World