R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.”
“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.”
Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“Reading enhances logical thinking and motivates analyzing skills. It helps one's mind to be calmer and wiser.
As the body seeks air, food, and water, the mind seeks knowledge, and it would be a huge waste if we didn't raise children from a very young age how to read passionately.
Young readers are young thinkers, and a child who can think is a child who can face life problems with calmer manners and quieter approach.”
“Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.”
“Reading every day with children can't guarantee perfect outcomes for any family—not in grades, not in happiness, not in relationships. But it is as close to a miracle product as we can buy, and it doesn't cost a nickel. As a flawed, fallible person with an imperfect temper, I know that reading every night is not just the nicest thing I've done with my children but represents, without question, the best I have been able to give them as their mother.”
Source: The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction – A Neuroscience Guide for Parents on Brain Development and Family Bonds
“Reading fast doesn’t make you smarter. Understanding faster does.”
“Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!”
“Reading fiction, delving into the lives others teaches us empathy. I think that it’s impossible to read a lot of good literature and be completely lacking in this essential virtue.”
“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.”
“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
“Reading fiction is like giving your mind access to a wonderland with lots of adventure and fun.”
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.”
“Reading fills us with knowledge and exercises our emotions.”
“Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.”
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
“Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.”
“Reading for writers is like training for athletes.”
“Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.”
“Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”
“Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.”
“Reading gave me hope.”
Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice
“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”
“Reading gives us information; writing exercises our emotions.”
Source: Persimmon Capital Murders
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
“Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.”
“READING GIVES YOU STRENGTH, WHILE WRITING GIVES YOU COURAGE”
“Reading gives you vocabulary and knowledge, two powerful communication tools. You are never at a loss for words, and you will always have something interesting to say.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“Reading God's Word and receiving the knowledge of Jesus Christ renews the believer's mind and transforms it to His mind. The minds of immature believers will be focused on selfish ambitions, but as they open themselves up to read the Word concerning Jesus, they enter into fellowship with Him and their thinking begins to change--to be renewed. As a result of such a renewing of the mind, they spontaneously start to look out for the interest of others and to genuinely and unselfishly care for others; they do not consider themselves better than everyone else.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.”
“Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.”
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.”
Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“Reading good books strengthens the moral fabric of society.”
“Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.”
“Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.”
“Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Reading had made her feel like she was filling in missing pieces of herself, identifying ideas lurking inside of her, but that she'd never been able to articulate, or maybe had just been afraid to.”
Source: Nothing Serious
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.”
Source: Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!
“Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.”
“Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.”
Source: The hearthstone of my heart
“Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.”
“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”
“Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.”
Source: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
“Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.”
“Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.”