Quotes of: Readings Keyword

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light

Literature - Reading, Fiction, Poetry & Drama 6th edition

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

The Living

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

M: Writings '67-'72

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The Summer Without Men

The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!

Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

I’d like to write gibberish in Latin, because if people aren’t going to be able to read it, they might as well not read it in a dead language.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

Perdida: Essays to Be Read While Intoxicated

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

The Prince of Tides

People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

By The Time You Read This

The best advice anyone has ever given me, was to never take advice from anyone.

Write like no one is reading 2

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

Write like no one is reading 2

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

Write like no one is reading 2

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Write like no one is reading 2