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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.
I like to get off my phone because when I sit with my phone, I don't feel creative cos I'm just sitting reading other people's things.
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.