Read Quotes (page 132)

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• may
• thinking
• time

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius

• reading
• die
• manly

A READER lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R. R. Martin

• evening
• logic
• giving time

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another. Isabel Allende

• thoughts
• future
• love

Children of the future age. Reading this indignant page. Know that in a former time. Love, sweet love, was thought a crime William Blake

• change
• people
• writing

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You... Anne Lamott

• reading
• look
• figuring

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. Kurt Cobain

• reading
• ignorance
• heart

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore. Khalil Gibran

• thinking
• reading
• sometimes

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley Andy Warhol

• time
• hard times
• hard

Why did Baudelaire? why does anyone? write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity. Walter Martin

• reading
• knowingly
• willed

The more you read, the more things you will know. Dr. Seuss

• book
• reading
• wild

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Dr. Seuss

• reading
• reads
• reviewer

Reviews? Didn’t read ’em. Ozzy Osbourne

• book
• reading
• imagination

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. Annie Dillard

• happy
• reading
• happiness

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. Charlaine Harris

• age
• book
• space

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space... Mario Vargas Llosa