Reading Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

Quotes with keyword Reading
0 1 2 3

~ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ~

August Hare

~ Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. ~

Horace Mann

~ Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading ~

Rufus Choate

~ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~

John Andrew Holmes

~ Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~

David Viscott

~ What is reading, but silent conversation. ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. ~

W. Somerset Maugham

~ Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers. ~

George Siemens

~ In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. ~

Harry S. Truman

~ One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Don't skip your vacations and breaks. Spend your breaks meditating, praying or reading. Don't bring work or your laptop with you on vacation. ~

Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman

~ Reading is good but the garden is the best teacher. ~

Christine Allison

~ I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~

Stan Isaacs

~ What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober ~

Bill Veeck

~ Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? ~

Dave Shiflett

~ Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment. ~

Henry Fielding

~ Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment. ~

Henry Fielding

~ When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight. ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. ~

Isaac Watts

~ Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ~

Vladimir Nabokov

~ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. ~

Diane Arbus

~ I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ~

Dorothy Day

~ A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism ~

Donald Morgan

~ There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~

Edith Wharton

~ The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have notch" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor ~

Eric Hoffer

~ An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ~

Washington Irving

~ I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ~

Russell Banks†

~ [T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ~

William Gaddis

~ Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ~

Jimmy Buffett

Page : 0 1 2 3