"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."

Reading,

59

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."

Exlpore more Reading quotes

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Reading,

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

Reading, Read

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

Reading, Read

"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

Harvey Milk, American Politician

Reading, Being, Country, Gay, Job

"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Reading, Observation, Isolation, Curiosity

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Shakespeare, Books, Frustration

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

Henry James, American Writer

Reading, Intellect, Reputation, Admiration

"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."

M. F. K. Fisher, American Writer

Reading, Read

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Reading, Read

Explore more quotes by Mike Tyson

"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."

Money

"I'll go back and take what the people owe me."

People

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

People

"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."

People

"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day."

Family

"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."

Society

"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."

History

"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."

Body

"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

Woman

"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."

Time