Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

The good times are killing me

Life

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Candide

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

Changing Planes

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Conversations with William Styron

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

Cosmo

The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.

Dude, Where's My Country?

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

A Dom is Forever

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Don Quixote

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

Dawn Rising

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Deathless

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

The Enchanted April

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

The Emperor Jones

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain.

Embers

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

The Essays