Winston Churchill Quotes, Reading Quotes, Leisure Quotes

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

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

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

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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