Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

Charles H. Spurgeon

taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Carl Sagan

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Harold Rosenberg

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Henry Rollins

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

Harvey Weinstein

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

Isabel Allende

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Iain Banks

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

Ira Glass

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

Ian Mcewan

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Ian Mcewan

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

Isaac Marion

My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.

Ian Mcewan

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

Jami Attenberg

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid

Jane Austen

If the warmth of her Language could affect the body it might be worth reading in this weather.

Jane Austen

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

James Lee Burke

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Jane Birkin

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

Jason Blum

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

John Barton