Virginia Woolf Quotes, Reading Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Money Quotes , Reading Quotes

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

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.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Reading Quotes

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.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Reading Quotes , Speaks Out Quotes

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Reading Quotes , Giving Quotes

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Reading Quotes , Faithful 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