Top 1200 Close Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Juhu is really close to the airport and it's also very close to the film studios.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

If you make a movie that's close to your heart, it will be close to other people's.

If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I've forgotten the road by which I came

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That love of reading stayed with me.

Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill.

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Riches and fame don't come close to having family members and close friends who really care for you.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we are close to are unhappy.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

I lost my father when I was a kid, so we were close unit; my sister and mother - obviously, I'm very close to them.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

I continue to stay close to Kellan Lutz and in touch with him. Because [the cast members of Twilight] have become so close.