Alan Tudyk Quotes, Reading Quotes, Rumination Quotes

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Reading Quotes , Pirate Quotes

I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Pages Quotes

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

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Delight Quotes

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Reading Quotes , Believe Quotes

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

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

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Reading Quotes , Leisure Quotes

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Book 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

I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Love Is Quotes

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes