Quotes by Reading To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only? Adrienne Rich multiple-choice reading mean Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. Agatha Christie intuition reading children You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. Agatha Christie reading doubt stories For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. Agnes Repplier incidents reading character Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. Agnes Repplier vision glasses reading By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness. Agnes Repplier parent reading children I cannot live without reading. Aidan Chambers reading You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Aidan Chambers reader reading literature I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job. Aiden Wilson Tozer prophet reading jobs Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it. Aiden Wilson Tozer reading Only one book is worth reading: the heart. Ajahn Chah reading heart book The heart is the only book worth reading. Ajahn Chah reading heart book I'm good at reading people. Al Alvarez reading people The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them. Al Feldstein reading kids book Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, all about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts - you find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls. Al Murray creativity reading art A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too. Al Pacino cutting reading doors When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. Al Pacino reading play happens Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way. Al Pacino reading feelings joy That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism. Al Yankovic gateways reading kids I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. Al Yankovic reading book children «1234567891011»
