Reading Quotes

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

~ S.a. Tawks

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

~ S.a. Tawks

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

~ S.a. Tawks

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

~ S.a. Tawks

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

~ S.a. Tawks

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

~ S.a. Tawks

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

~ S.a. Tawks

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

~ Jerry J.c. Veit

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

~ S.a. Tawks

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.

~ S.a. Tawks

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

~ S.a. Tawks

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

~ S.a. Tawks

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

~ S.a. Tawks

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

~ S.a. Tawks

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

~ S.a. Tawks

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

~ S.a. Tawks

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

~ S.a. Tawks

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

~ S.a. Tawks

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

~ S.a. Tawks

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

~ S.a. Tawks

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

~ S.a. Tawks

My books, my paradise!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.

~ Meshack Asare

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

~ Azar Nafisi

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.

~ Azar Nafisi

Every book is a world.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

~ Emmuska Orczy

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

~ Carmela Dutra

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

~ Graham Greene

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

~ Dan Sanders

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

~ Meg Rosoff

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

~ Katrina Mayer

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the nature of all that was real. In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick og everything. In my dreams I have used that language to heal the sick and to fly; once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed-and-breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole.' and they would become whole, not be broken people , not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

~ Neil Gaiman

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.

~ Joanna Bolouri

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

~ Sara Sheridan

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t

~ Neil Gaiman

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

~ Himmilicious