Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Lawrence Clark Powell

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Italian

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.

City of Shadows

But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Essays of Elia

Alone is just another word for love.

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 dig art. With a shovel. In the cemetery.

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

If I had to believe, I would. But I don’t, and I do.

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 decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer. 

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

Life insurance is a dying industry.

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 didn’t fire my gun. I gave it a promotion.

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

Webster’s—the original high definition entertainment.

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’m for a big government. A big government contraction.

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

Politics isn’t dirty. And neither are politicians. No, politicians are filthy.

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 only class I studied religiously was Christianity 101.

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

So many trees, so few chimneys.

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

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

The Fault in Our Stars