There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don’t know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.
Reading is the basics for all learning.
One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read, its going to be hard to realize dreams; its going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to listen to her.
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there’s not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.
I believe in open government. I’ve always believed in open government. I don’t e-mail, however. And there’s a reason: I don’t want you reading my personal stuff.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That’s much better than watching television, much better. They won’t get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
I love to read. My education is self-inflicted.