Quotes by Reading I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while. Alice Munro reading stories house I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. Alice Munro reading book art It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust. Alice Munro dust reading book Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard. Alice Walker reading book world Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. Alice Walker generations reading writing Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult. Alice Walker yoga reading book My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Alicia Keys actresses reading mother People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it. Alicia Vikander reading book people Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead. Alina Bronsky reading people thinking There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. Alisa Valdes reading writing teacher People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author. Alison Bechdel reading book thinking I had been reading a lot of pilots. It was pilot season and I had decided, in my mind, that I wanted to do another show, but the bar had already been set so high, having working on Mad Men and Community, that I was really particular. I was looking for something really specific, but I didn't even know exactly what that was. When I read 'Glow', it just checked every box. Alison Brie mad reading men To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. Alison Pill novel reading mind The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. Alister E. McGrath eye offering reading The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. Allan Bloom reading book knowledge If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying! Allan Boesak color reading christian Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject. Allan McLeod Cormack reading kings science Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Allen Ginsberg eye reading winter Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Allen W. Wood reading philosophy school The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him. Allen W. Wood prejudice understanding reading «678910111213141516»