Reading Quotes

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

~ Anton Du Beke

A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.

~ Dierks Bentley

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.

~ Gerry Cooney

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

~ Matt Mullenweg

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.

~ Sonam Kapoor

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

~ Domenico Dolce

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

~ Amy Tan

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

~ Chaim Potok

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

~ Ron Reagan

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.

~ Paul Craig Roberts

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

~ Michael Graves

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

~ Bob Ney

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

~ Will Rogers

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

~ Patricia Polacco

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

~ Geoff Dyer

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

~ Sonu Nigam

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

~ Ken Burns

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

~ Lord Acton

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

~ Michael Mosley

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

~ Joe Bastianich

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

~ Tig Notaro

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

~ Kristin Scott Thomas

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

~ Ramakrishna

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

~ Nikola Tesla

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

~ Samuel Johnson

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

~ Edvard Munch

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

~ David Bailey

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

~ James Patterson

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~ Mark Haddon

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

~ René Descartes

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

~ Drew Houston

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

~ John Sharp Williams

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

~ Wilfred Owen

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

~ Taylor Swift

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

~ Rachel Tucker