Top 1200 Reading For Pleasure Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

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

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

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.

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.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

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.

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

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

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

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

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

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

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.

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

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

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.

?Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

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.

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

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

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

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

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

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

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

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

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

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.

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

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.

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.

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