Top 1200 Libraries And Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

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.

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

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

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.

It's really important that we look after our libraries.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

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.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

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.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

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.

People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

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.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

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

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.

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.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

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

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

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.

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.

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

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

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.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

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.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

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

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

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.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.