Reading Quotes - Page 13

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.

Don't dare try to be heroes.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

The Atlantic Monthly

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

Israelmore Ayivor

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible is the most inspired book of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

Charles M. Blow

And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.

Zack Love

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.

I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the Columbia Indians made their long-houses, or how to make a solar toilet, or how to dry bear meat in the sun. I could tell you all of this if I could talk, but instead the words stayed inside of me and marveled. This I could accept, or so I told myself for a long time. Because the words were there, and they carried me to another place.

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

Kelseyleigh Reber

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

Richelle E. Goodrich

He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

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