R Quotes
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“Reading has not gone out of fashion in the last number of years, nor in the ones while you slept in the asteroid belt. Your relatives do not wish to expose themselves to deep thought, lest they be affected by it.”
Source: The Death of Sleep
“Reading have got the good factor.”
“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...."
"Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible," Ludmilla says. "Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be....”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Reading helps me
escape
to another world -
any world that I want
to be in.”
Source: On Track
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but—as the saying goes—perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case you ever wish to do this, here is the form: a solemn assistant produces a plastic envelope and fits it over the amber or ivory mouthpiece. You then clamp your teeth down to feel if the 'fit' and weight are easy to your jaw. If not, then repeat with various stems until your browsing is complete. In those days I could have inhaled ten cigarettes and drunk three Tanqueray martinis in the time spent on such flaneur flippancy, but I admired the commitment to smoking nonetheless. Taking coffee with him once in a shopping mall in Stanford, I saw him suddenly register something over my shoulder. It was a ladies' dress shop. He excused himself and dashed in, to emerge soon after with some fashionable and costly looking bags. 'Mariam,' he said as if by way of explanation, 'has never worn anything that I have not bought for her.' On another occasion in Manhattan, after acting as a magnificent, encyclopedic guide around the gorgeous Andalusia (Al-Andalus) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he was giving lunch to Carol and to me when she noticed that her purse had been lost or stolen. At once, he was at her service, not only suggesting shops in the vicinity where a replacement might be found, but also offering to be her guide and advisor until she had selected a suitable new sac à main. I could no more have proposed myself for such an expedition than suggested myself as a cosmonaut, so what this says about my own heterosexual confidence I leave to others.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Reading history is like binge-watching the highlight reels from past seasons of current affairs.”
“Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.”
“Reading holy books is both the extraordinary measures of extraordinary times and the extraordinary times of extraordinary measures”
“Reading Homicide by David Simon was the first time I said, "What if this was in a world of superheroes?" That was a very good idea. What if Chinatown took place in a world of superheroes, that became Jessica Jones. Just things that I love, you can match up the genres and have fun with it, those moments.”
“Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.”
“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”
Source: Anti-Nice Guy
“Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence.”
“Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.”
“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”
“Reading in bed is a precision art - knowing the right wattage, high enough to ready by, low enough to fall asleep with the light still on, choosing books not for their content but for their size and weight, knowing the right position in bed so the book won't slide off and hit the floor and wake you again.”
Source: Held
“Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.”
“Reading in old age for me is doing what it has always done--it frees me from the closet of my own mind.”
Source: Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir
“Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.”
“Reading...
inspires,
enlightens,
nurtures,
refines,
educates,
informs,
transforms,
persuades,
challenges,
engages,
entertains,
mesmerizes,
captivates,
gratifies,
rewards,
quiets,
and calms.
Granted, it won't get the dishes done,
but sacrifices must be made.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
“Reading is a beautiful paradise.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.”
“Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.”
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
“Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.”
“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time and sends forth many blossom-laden branches.
People who can say of a book, 'this changed my life' truly understand the meaning of happiness. Reading that sparks inner revolution is desperately needed to escape drowning in the rapidly advancing information society. Reading is more than intellectual ornamentation; it is a battle for the establishment for the self, a ceaseless challenge that keeps us young and vigorous.”
“Reading is a discontinuous and fragmentary operation. Or rather, the object of reading is punctiform and pulviscular material. In the spreading expanse of the writing, the reader’s attention isolates some minimal segments, juxtapositions of words, metaphors, syntactic nexuses, logical passages, lexical peculiarities that prove to possess an extremely concentrated density of meaning. They are like elemental particles making up the work’s nucleus, around which all the rest revolves or else like the void at the bottom of a vortex which sucks in and swallows currents. It is through these apertures that, in barely perceptible flashes, the truth the book may bear is revealed, its ultimate substance. Myth and mysteries consist of impalpable little granules like the pollen that sticks to a butterfly’s legs, only those who have realized this can expect revelations and illuminations. This is why my attention, in contrast to what you, sir, were saying, cannot be detached from the written lines even for an instant. I must not be distracted if I do not wish to miss some valuable clue. Every time I come upon one of these clumps of meaning I must go on digging around to see if the nugget extends into a vein. This is why my reading has no end. I read and reread, each time seeking the confirmation of a new discovery among the folds of the sentences.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.”
“Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.”
Source: The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
“Reading...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: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“Reading is a gateway to imagination, a world without limit, a safe space to escape from enduring reality.”
Source: Life Full of Reading: A Collection of Book Reviews
“Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times
“Reading is a great treasure of enlightenment.”
“Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.”
“Reading is a habit and writing is a discipline.”
Source: Quantraz
“Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.”
“Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face.”
Source: Reminders of Him
“Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.”
“Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.”
“Reading is a life-long collision with minds not like your own.”
“Reading is a light.”
Source: The Land of Walking Through Cake
“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”
“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.”
“Reading is a means of recovery—of our minds, our hearts, and our lives. It reminds us that every story, like every person, holds the power to heal.”
Source: Recovery: A Physician's Unbelievable Story
“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
“Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays