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Reading Quotes


"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."


"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."


"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."


"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."


"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."


"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."


"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."



"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."


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


"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."


"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."



"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."


"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."


"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."


"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."


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


"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."


"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."


"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."


"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."


"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"


"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."


"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."


"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."


"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."


"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."


"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."


"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."


"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."


"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."


"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us."


"Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers."


"I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way."
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