Reading Quotes - Page 12

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Jeanette Winterson

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

Walter B. Pitkin

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Muna Adnan Naqi

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds.

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the nature of all that was real. In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick og everything. In my dreams I have used that language to heal the sick and to fly; once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed-and-breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole.' and they would become whole, not be broken people , not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.

Every book is a world.

Gabrielle Zevin

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Michael Bassey Johnson

My books, my paradise!

Lailah Gifty Akita

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.

Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?

The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.

Richelle E. Goodrich

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.

All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.

The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Jerry J.C. Veit

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.

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