Top 1200 Reading Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read.

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?

I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.

I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.

I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. ... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.