Quotes
Quotes about Reading
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace, Unlooking for such grace, I shall behold your face! Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn. - Walt Whitman,
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
