645 quotes found
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“Why do I read?I just can't help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I've never been exposed to.I read when I'm crabby, when I've just sai...”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on...”
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? Im like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
“I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”
“If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.”
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
“I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my b...”
