Top 1200 Reading History Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

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

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

I am interested in constitutional history, political history, the history of foreign affairs, but I think you can get at those subjects through the details of daily life.

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 stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

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

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.

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

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

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

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.

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

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

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

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

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

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

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

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

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.

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