Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Mr. Koreander: Your books are safe. While you're reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe. Bastian: But that's what I like about 'em. Mr. Koreander: Ahh, but afterwards you get to be a little boy again. Bastian: Wh-what do you mean? ...

The NeverEnding Story

Lando Calrissian: We've gotta be able to get some kind of a reading on that shield, up or down. Nien Nunb: [speaks in Sullustese] Lando Calrissian: But how could they be jamming us if they don't know... if we're coming? [over comlink] Lando Calrissia...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Oompa Loompas: Oompa Loompa doo-pa-dee do / I've got another puzzle for you / Oompa Loompa doo-pa-dah dee / If you are wise you'll listen to me / What do you get from a glut of TV? / A pain in the neck and an IQ of 3 / Why don't you try simply readin...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

[Carter hands Edward an article about Kopi Luwak, Edward's favorite coffee] Carter Chambers: Read it. Edward Cole: [reading] Kopi Luwak is the world's most expensive coffee. Though for some, it falls under the category of "too good to be true." In th...

The Bucket List

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. E...

Walter Kaufmann

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The Camel Club

Would you still read me when I become a blank page.

The Calligraphy of God

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

Catch Me

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

The Confessions of a Misfit

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Claims for Poetry

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The Critic

I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead.

Come Summer

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’)

Consider the Years

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

A Dance with Dragons

...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Days and Nights