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Reading Quotes (page 124)

Gaston Bachelard quote: "To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something..."
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful... Gaston Bachelard
Mark Twain quote: "Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those..."
Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't. Mark Twain
He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience. Tove Jansson
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in..."
There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields. W. Somerset Maugham
Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible. Meg Cabot
Eldridge Cleaver quote: "I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book..."
I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train. Eldridge Cleaver
[I] took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages. Neil Gaiman
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void.- You've Got Mail Nora Ephron
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading."
I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading. Haruki Murakami
The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT! Mindy Kaling
Rick Warren quote: "The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to,..."
The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read Rick Warren
How'd she happen to mention me? Does she do to B.M. now? She said she might go there. she said she might go to Shipley, too. I thought she went to Shipley. how'd she happen to mention me?"- Personally after reading chapters 1-5 and learning about Jane and Holden's relationship as friends or just to people you can tell that obviously he does truly care about this girl. To make situations between Holden and Stradlater I see jealousy come with in the mix when a date between "Strad" and jane come... J. D. Salinger
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals..."
I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me. Gordon B. Hinckley
I think…Have I given up anything by living with another person? Has there been a trade-off? Always, there is a trade-off. And the answer comes to me instantly. I have given up a certain degree of freedom. The ability to plow through my life with utter disregard for the thoughts and feelings of other people. I can no longer read a magazine and throw it on the floor. In exchange, I get unlimited access to the one person I have met in my life whom I automatically felt was out of my league. My... Augusten Burroughs
She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch? it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen? and what she imagined there was on TV appalled her. John Irving

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