Reading Quotes - Page 7

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Read read read Thats all I can say

From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.