1778 Reading Quotes for You to Enjoy

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles

Writing Wish Reading Pleasure Had Thee Much

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise. Frank Crowninshield

First Reading Madame About Name Know French Course Female Yearn Mixed Discovery American Interested Really Who Sauce

Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum. Frank Deford

You Sports Generation Listening Reading Analyzing About Arguing Take Quickness Them Games Momentum Whole Even Last Watching

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud. Frank Delaney

By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies. Frank Tipler

Bible Church Will Reading Worship Take Over Koran Passages Still Traditional Texts Decades Form Century Ceremonies Rig Last

I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of 'new media' was that it would break the chokehold that old media companies had on public opinion. Franklin Foer

Technology Old Promises Reading Way Would Had New Executives Opinion Traditional New Media Lot Break Public Public Opinion Companies Media Gatekeepers

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' Franz Wright

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available. Fred Kaplan

You Try Advice Reading Year Unless Pleasure Has-Been Some About Rather Lifetime Had Written Him Least Lincoln Been His Years Five Expert Available Much Who

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. Fred Savage

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). Frederik Pohl

Great Science First Reading Believe Spent Hawking He Most Couple Because Science Fiction Said Cambridge Were His Years Grades Fiction

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing. Freya Ridings

Dyslexic Writing School Reading Struggled Academically Really

When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' Gaby Hoffmann

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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. Gail Carson Levine

Time Words Important Big Reading Kids Learn Child Person Stories

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting. Gail Sheehy

You Money Coffee Reading Thinking Adapting Our Paper Adjust Find About Online Adulthood New Identity Spouse How Still May Stops While Working Requires Commuting Who Enjoying Second

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me. Garrett Dillahunt

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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. Gary Kemp

Me Lie Reading Interview Ghost Though See Some Point Feels Like First-Person Always Singular Text May Autobiographies Manipulating Fascinate Even Lives Published Present

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