Winston Churchill Quotes, Reading Quotes, Leisure Quotes

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Reading Quotes , Garden Quotes

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Interesting Quotes

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Reading Quotes , Progress Quotes

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Children Quotes , Reading Quotes

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Reading Quotes , Years Quotes

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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Tags : Alan Furst Quotes , Reading Quotes , Degrees Quotes

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Reading Quotes , Circles Quotes

I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There's no closer reading then when you read to translate.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Reading Quotes

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

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