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Reading Quotes (page 87)

Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet."I giggled. " That does sound better." It wouldn't feel very official if Emmett read the vows, which was a plus. But I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face. Stephenie Meyer
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day. Robert A. Heinlein
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. S. Lewis quote: "There is something awfully nice about reading a book again,..."
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back. C. S. Lewis
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it. Christopher Hitchens
Thomas Hobbes quote: "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as..."
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. Thomas Hobbes
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper. Chuck Palahniuk
Nick Hornby quote: "We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly..."
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they"re badly read, too. Nick Hornby
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it. Thomas Merton
LADY CROOM: You have been reading too many novels by Mrs Radcliffe, that is my opinion. This is a garden for The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho -- CHATER: The Castle of Otranto, my lady, is by Horace Walpole. NOAKES: (Thrilled) Mr Walpole the gardener?! LADY CROOM: Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one? Tom Stoppard
When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading. Virginia Woolf
He couldn’t have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon. P. G. Wodehouse
It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much... Augusten Burroughs
Pliny the Elder quote: "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and..."
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read. Pliny the Elder
Marilyn Monroe quote: "I read poetry to save time."
I read poetry to save time. Marilyn Monroe

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