Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

Richie Norton

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

Maurice Saatchi

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Mary Kom

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

Doug Stanhope

2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.

Jim George

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Suze Orman

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

Anita Borg

Until you start building your brand don't start searching for a bride

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happ...

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really construct...

Dust Tracks on a Road

Of course I can read", he said. "Jesus Christ." "Well, then, what are you trying to tell me? That you don't want to?" "No. I-" He closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his nose. "-I don't know why I'm trying to tell you anything. I can read....

Fangirl

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to r...

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer. Heeding the suggestions we have made will help you sustain this attitude. You will be surprised to find out how much t...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

326. Excessive reading does not make us smarter. Some people simply "devour" books. They do it without the necessary intervals of thought, which are necessary in order to "digest," to process what has been read, to absorb and comprehend it. When peop...

Notes from Prison

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world...

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one befo...

The Leaning Tower Of Babel And Other Affronts By The Underground Grammarian

Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or somet...

Something, Maybe

Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful. I applaud the author for writing a book to meet the needs of very young children as well as children of elementary school age. I experienced ...

Sunny