Reading Quotes

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.