R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Readers pretended to want happy, hopeful endings, but James understood that what they really wanted was an excuse to continue reveling in darkness.”
Source: Many Savage Moons
“Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.”
“Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.”
“Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others”
“Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.”
“Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”
Source: Ladies' Magazine
“Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.”
“Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections”
“Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.”
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
“Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.”
“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”
Source: Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
“Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.”
Source: Thinking with Type
“Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.”
“Readers want to be exercised, not informed. It's not the amplitude of the signal that matters, but how much it resonates.”
Source: TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS
“Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.”
“Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim--readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it--the first lesson must be in humility. . . . Don't waste time and mental energy in comparing yourself to others whether to your shame or gratification, since we are all wayfarers.”
Source: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
“Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association”
Source: Running Out of Night
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force pilot whose body was washed ashore on a beach near Dieppe three months later. Other traces of his ‘mortal remains’ were found in a number of unexpected places: in a footnote to a paper on some unusual aspects of schizophrenia published thirty years earlier in a since defunct psychiatric journal; in the pilot for an unpurchased TV thriller, ‘Lieutenant 70’; and on the record labels of a pop singer known as The Him — to instance only a few. Whether in fact this man was a returning astronaut suffering from amnesia, the figment of an ill-organized advertising campaign, or, as some have suggested, the second coming of Christ, is anyone’s guess.”
Source: The Atrocity Exhibition
“Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.”
“Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!”
“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.”
“Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.”
“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.”
“Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.”
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”
“READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .”
“Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.”
“Readiness for action is the root of all kingly duties. Listen to the verse sung by Vrihaspati: By exertion the amrita was obtained, by exertion the asuras were slain and by exertion Indra obtained sovereignity in heaven and on earth. The heroes of exertion are superior to the heroes of speech. The heroes of speech gratify the heroes of exertion.”
Source: Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata
“Readiness for corrections, tutorship and mentorship is readiness for a healthy future.”
“Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques”
“Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.”
“Readiness is a perfect blend
of preparedness
and openness--
thought through enough yet not stuck in ideas of what it should be,
practiced enough yet not measured by rote repetition,
alert and energized enough yet calm and relaxed enough
to build enough confidence
to trust in oneself
to meet the moment,
take it in fully and respond to it in kind.”
“Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.”
“Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.”
“Readiness is the recipe for conquering change.”
Source: Quantraz
“Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.”
“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
Source: Herzog
“readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.”
Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)
“Reading”
“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
“Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.”
“Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.”
“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”
Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932
“Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, 'love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams' (The Brothers Karamazov).”
Source: Prayer for Beginners