R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.”
“Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.”
Source: Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.”
Source: Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel
“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.”
Source: Miscellaneous Writings of G.W.F. Hegel
“Reading the news has become an exercise in sorrow.”
Source: Walks With Sam: A Man, a Dog, and a Season of Awakening
“Reading the newspaper is always unpleasant from an aesthetic point of view, and often from a moral point of view as well, even for those who don’t worry much about morality.
Reading about the effects of wars and revolutions--there’s always one or the other in the news--doesn’t make us feel horror but tedium.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.”
“Reading, the safest adventure you can book!”
“Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.”
“Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.”
Source: Matched
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Reading The Wealth of Nations as an attack against lobbying from special interest groups and cronyism suggests that for Smith the violence and inefficiencies of rent seeking mercantilist policies cause harm and are unjust.
For Smith, rent seeking and state capture by special interest groups is not only inefficient, but uses the (actual) "blood and treasure" of fellow citizens to enrich a few merchants under the false pretence of enriching the country. The Wealth of Nations can therefore be read as a moral condemnation of mercantilist policies: unjust policies are also inefficient policies.”
Source: Adam Smith: The Kirkcaldy Papers
“Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.”
Source: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.”
“Reading them for a third and fourth time, something else was apparent. She was just as confused as he was about why she had left him behind. These words especially caught his attention:
What you did at the gas station before I
drove off was the last straw. I didn’t
realize I had been counting them but…
apparently--in my subconsciousness--
they had been adding up.”
Source: Left
“Reading then is writing, in an endless movement of giving and receiving: each reading reinscribes something of a text; each reading reconstitutes the web it tries to decipher, but by adding another web. One must read in a text not only that which is visible and present but also the nontext of the text, the parentheses, the silences.”
Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.”
“Reading through a boring book is like digging through concrete.”
“Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.”
“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”
“Reading to children not only opens their mind to the world, it opens your mind to theirs.”
Source: Jasper the Bold
“Reading to children opens their minds and fills their hearts!”
“Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.”
“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
“Reading to understand and writing to be understood.”
Source: On the Verge
“Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.”
“Reading transports us to another world and allows us to see possibilities that we wouldn’t know exist otherwise. It empowers us with knowledge and reassures us with familiarity. It helps us cope by providing a means to take a break from our troubles.”
“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”
“Reading verses is like taking in the beauty of nature or the love of our life, one glance is never enough, like our most cherished song played in a loop for hours together.”
Source: By the River Mandovi
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”
“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
“Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.”
“reading was always the safest, fastest, most convenient, and most comfortable way to travel.”
Source: To Know Miss May
“Reading was escapism, a way to travel and teleport into an alternative life and universe, because sometimes our current reality wasn’t something we always wanted to face. Books had carried me through the worst parts of my life, and some of the best.”
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
Source: Richard Wright Reader
“Reading was like accumulating wisdom in a jar. The great magic was being able to bring it out again without being a bore.”
Source: The House Across the Street
“Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.”
Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.”
“Reading was my most reliable escape in childhood, the one way I could get away from my father while still trapped in the same space with him.”
Source: They Never Learn
“Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.”
“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
Source: What the Dead Know: A Novel
“Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)”
Source: Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather
“Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.”
Source: Blind Submission: A Novel
“Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.”
“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself”
Source: The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.”
“Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.”
Source: The Enchanted April
“Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.”