Inspectional Reading Quotes

#1. Finally, do not try to understand every word or page of a difficult book the first time through. This is the most important rule of all; it is the essence of inspectional reading.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Joseph Pilates

#3. Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

John M. McHugh

#5. Is it God? Did God set up the dominoes and wait for some human to flick the first one? Or is it the opposite way around? Did humans set them up so God could do the flicking?

Allan Wolf

#6. But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Ruben Blades

#7. The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about.

Scott Kelly

#8. We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Julia Cameron

#9. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

Michael Leunig

#10. We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

Karl Popper

#11. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere the traces of one great beauty...

Henry Rago

#13. For the right woman, we all strive to be a man worth his salt.

Kristy McCaffrey

#14. China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

George Allen

#15. The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

Lenny Bruce

#16. I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.

Carrie Harris