Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

BERNARD. (To DONALD.) Donald, read any new libraries lately? DONALD. One or three. I did the complete works of Doris Lessing this week. I've been depressed. [. . .] BERNARD. Some people eat, some people drink, and some take dope. DONALD. I read. MICH...

Mart Crowley

As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and the things of God, his heart will soon come off to prayer....Begin with reading or...

William Bridge

"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John D. MacDonald-but then I went to regular school and the English teachers started telling me to read 'real' books, so I tried. And you k...

The Secret of Everything

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

The Cross He Bore: Meditations on the Sufferings of the Redeemer

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Great House

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

George Andrew Olah

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

Samuel West

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

Max Brooks

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's really amazing the time people take to write these letters, tell their stories, draw pictures, etc.

Marisa Miller

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

The Savage Detectives

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Looking for Alaska

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The Stormy Petrel

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The Solitary Summer

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The Slippery Slope

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

The Princess Bride

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

The Rule of Saint Benedict

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. 

Write like no one is reading

Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.

Write like no one is reading