Reading Quotes - Page 13

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

No two persons ever read the same book.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.