Reading Quotes - Page 47

Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it’s realizing I am part of the world around me.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds