R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reading(anything) is at once a solitary activity and a connection with another mind.”
“Reading, as I have said elsewhere, is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Reading back, it felt extreme and unreasonable in terms of what was expected of me, but at the time I'd just accepted it as part of the job. There were points where I wouldn't have flinched if an entry read 'swam to Iceland for antenatal clinic' or 'had to eat a helicopter today'.”
Source: This Is Going To Hurt
“Reading bad books is worse than reading nothing at all.”
“Reading becomes the fuel for development.”
“Reading begets reading.”
Source: Shakespeare Wrote for Money
“Reading between the lines is a lifelong quest of a truly sensual woman. Her ability to pick up what isn't being said is the key to her mystery and wisdom.”
“Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you have never ridden a bike or set foot in the West, this book will make both a part of your life as vivid as any trip you have taken. Daryl Farmer's journey-into the heart of a land, of a time, into the very nature of memory and experience-is one I will never forget.”
“Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.”
“Reading books contributes to happiness, and being happy is good for your health. Therefore, reading is good for your health.”
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.”
“Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.”
“Reading books is good and then, telling everyone that you read and therefore, you know more, is not.”
“Reading books is good,
Rereading good books is better.”
Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell
“Reading books is like having a personal trainer for your brain, but without the sweat stains! It's the intellectual equivalent of a spa day, where you indulge in imagination, flex your mental muscles, and emerge feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. So, ditch the treadmill and grab a book – it's the workout your brain craves!”
“Reading books is like wearing winter clothes; it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul.”
“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”
“Reading brings knowledge and knowledge is power; therefore reading is power. The power to know and learn and understand . . . but also the power to dream. Stories inspire us to reach high, love deep, change the world and be more than we ever thought we could. Every book allows us to dream a new dream.”
Source: Royally Matched
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
Source: The Elixir of Life
“Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac”
“Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.”
“Reading Campbell, I saw that heroes, like shapers, come in varying sizes—there are big ones and small ones—that they are real people, and that we all know some. I also saw that being a hero is typically not all it’s cracked up to be—they get beat up a lot, and many are attacked, humiliated, or killed even after they triumph. In fact, it’s hard to see the logic for choosing this hero role, if one were to choose. But I could see and relate to how a certain type of person would start and stay on that path.”
Source: Principles: Life and Work
“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
“Reading can be dangerous.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Reading can lead a person towards better tomorrow.”
“Reading can open your world just by placing the words in the right place.”
Source: The Big Dream: The Crow's Tales: Middle Grade Fiction
“Reading can play the part of rescuing children who live the wretched life of extreme poverty – a life of deprivation kills children's ambition, so that they accept whatever comes their way. And here comes the part of reading, for it helps the children escape from their confined space and difficult time to unbounded space and stimulates them to
extend their vision until it coextends with all history. Reading is in this case not a component of life – it is life!
Indeed, poor and illiterate families' children need reading more than other children, so that they do not fall a prey to desperation, hopelessness, and narrow-mindedness.”
Source: A Child Reads
“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”
Source: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.”
“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.”
Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.”
“Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.”
“Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd bought at Sears were of a plasticized brown-and-pink fabric with a backing of foam rubber. They were heavy and bulky and stiff. "You'll appreciate these on a cold night," he told Chip. "You'll be surprised how much they cut down drafts." But Chip's freshman roommate was a prep-school product named Roan McCorkle who would soon be leaving thumbprints, in what appeared to be Vaseline, on the fifth-grade photo of Denise. Roan laughed at the curtains and Chip laughed, too. He put them back in the box and stowed the box in the basement of the dorm and let it gather mold there for the next four years. He had nothing against the curtains personally. They were simply curtains and they wanted no more than what any curtains wanted - to hang well, to exclude light to the best of their ability, to be neither too small nor too large for the window that it was their task in life to cover; to be pulled this way in the evening and that way in the morning; to stir in the breezes that came before rain on a summer night; to be much used and little noticed. There were numberless hospitals and retirement homes and budget motels, not just in the Midwest but in the East as well, where these particularly brown rubber-backed curtains could have had a long and useful life. It wasn't their fault that they didn't belong in a dorm room. They'd betrayed no urge to rise above their station; their material and patterning contained not a hint of unseemly social ambition. They were what they were. If anything, when he finally dug them out of the eve of graduation, their virginal pinkish folds turned out to be rather less plasticized and homely and Sears-like than he remembered. They were nowhere near as shameful as he'd thought.”
Source: The corrections
“Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.”
“Reading civilized the inner life.”
“Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.”
“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”
“Reading consists of perusing razor-thin slices of perpetuity, wrenched from the heart of a murdered tree, and infused with the dark blood that swirls within the hidden depths of every writer's soul. It is their combined angst - the author's and the tree's - that we partake of when we immerse ourselves in the pages of a book.”
“Reading contemporary accounts brings home the fact that of any battle or campaign there are at least for different versions. One is that of those who fought in it, two is of the generals who commanded it, three is of those who reported on it at the time and made what they could of a mass of confused and often misleading information, and four is the version of those who had a theory about it and reported those facts which happened to fit the version they were trying to portray.”
“Reading contemporary accounts brings home the fact that of any battle or campaign there are at least for different versions. One is that of those who fought in it, two is of the generals who commanded it, three is of those who reported on it at the time and made what they could of a mass of confused and often misleading information, and four is the version of those who had a theory about it and reported those facts which happened to fit the version they were trying to portray." ~The Crimean War: A reappraisal”
“Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.”
“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.”
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.”
“Reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is comparable to pushing a beautiful grand piano up a very steep hill.”
“Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree