Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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