....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.
- Mortimer Adler
How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
- Harold Bloom
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
- Harold Bloom
As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.
- Harold Bloom
This book might also be seen as "a Christian primer." A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them. This book's purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.
- Marcus J Borg
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
- Ray Bradbury
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
- Brandon Sanderson
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
- Pearl S Buck
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
- Joseph Campbell
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
- Benjamin Franklin
What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
- William Ellery Channing
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Terry Pratchett
A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.
- Ian Morgan Cron
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
- Virginia Woolf
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.
- Mahmoud Darwish
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free.
- Frederick Douglass
Do you know how to read?"
"No. It is one of the black arts."
He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
- Ursula K Le Guin
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
- Clint Eastwood
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
- Maynard Ferguson
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
- Mike Ferguson
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.
"How to saw people in half?"
"That too."
"Nice.
- Catherine Fisher
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
- Catherine The Great
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
- Eddie Van Halen
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
- Barbara Johnson
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
- Gregory Maguire
When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
- Gregory Maguire
...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her.
"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it is a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
-Out of Oz
- Gregory Maguire
I still don't know how to read music.
- Richard Manuel
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
- Toni Morrison
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
- Robert B Parker
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
- Shimon Peres
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
- Nicole Polizzi
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
- Gary D Schmidt
You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
- Hillary Scott
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
- Anya Seton
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
- Clarence Thomas
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
- Lewis Thomas
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
- Boss Tweed
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
- Mike Tyson
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
- Abraham Verghese
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
- Margaret Whiting
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
- Yanni
- Mortimer Adler
How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
- Harold Bloom
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
- Harold Bloom
As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.
- Harold Bloom
This book might also be seen as "a Christian primer." A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them. This book's purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.
- Marcus J Borg
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
- Ray Bradbury
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
- Brandon Sanderson
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
- Pearl S Buck
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
- Joseph Campbell
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
- Benjamin Franklin
What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
- William Ellery Channing
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Terry Pratchett
A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.
- Ian Morgan Cron
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
- Virginia Woolf
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.
- Mahmoud Darwish
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free.
- Frederick Douglass
Do you know how to read?"
"No. It is one of the black arts."
He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
- Ursula K Le Guin
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
- Clint Eastwood
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
- Maynard Ferguson
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
- Mike Ferguson
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.
"How to saw people in half?"
"That too."
"Nice.
- Catherine Fisher
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
- Catherine The Great
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
- Eddie Van Halen
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
- Barbara Johnson
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
- Gregory Maguire
When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
- Gregory Maguire
...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her.
"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it is a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
-Out of Oz
- Gregory Maguire
I still don't know how to read music.
- Richard Manuel
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
- Toni Morrison
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
- Robert B Parker
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
- Shimon Peres
I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
- Nicole Polizzi
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
- Gary D Schmidt
You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
- Hillary Scott
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
- Anya Seton
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
- Clarence Thomas
It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
- Lewis Thomas
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
- Boss Tweed
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
- Mike Tyson
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
- Abraham Verghese
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
- Margaret Whiting
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
- Yanni
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