Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Honey and Salt

Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.

Hausfrau

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

I, Claudius

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I want to get the words "Courage" and "Bravery" tattooed across my back, so people could associate me with those things as they read them while they chase me.

I Want

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Jingo

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Killosophy

Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

Reading Between the Lines

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

Rite of Passage

Just as the calm unruffled lake, mirrors the beauty of a scene, I would reflect to those who read, the joys of love and life serene".

Reflections In Poetry And Pictures

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.

Report on Planet Three

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

The Sorrows of an American

Remember iron sharpens iron. People inspire people, therefore, always ensure that you read books that can easily guide you to discover strategies of making a good name.

Shaping the dream

He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.

Smells Like Dog

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

The Splendour Falls

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life