Top 1200 Extensive Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

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

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

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

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

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

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

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

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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.

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

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

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

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

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

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. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.