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~ When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ~

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

~ When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ~

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

~ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. ~

C. S. Lewis

~ There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ~

Robert Benchley

~ It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. ~

George Muller

~ The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ~

Anthony Trollope

~ Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~

Anonymous

~ The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ~

Ursula K. LeGuin

~ 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

~ I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. ~

Bible

~ My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows. ~

Christopher Lasch

~ As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class. ~

Kim Basinger

~ If ever we had proof that our nation`s pollution laws aren`t working, it`s reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. ~

Altaf Ladak

~ Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ~

Donald Cargill

~ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~

Mark Twain

~ My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ~

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

~ Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal. ~

Christopher Buckley

~ Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

~ Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ 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

~ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Reading a good book can be like being on vacation! ~

Catherine Pulsifer

~ If you allow yourself to begin posting entries based on what you think someone else wants you to write, you are missing the point of having a weblog. Even more destructive is the number game. It is always flattering to discover that someone else likes reading what you write, but it you begin to focus on gaining the largest audience you can, you will destroy whatever pleasure you may otherwise derive from your work. ~

Rebecca Blood

~ Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ~

Thomas Kempis

~ Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it ~

Spanish Proverb

~ Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it ~

Spanish Proverb

~ Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~

Alfred Hitchcock

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