Quotes About Reading Carefully

#1. When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing.

Justin Rosenstein

#2. Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

Robert Winston

#3. Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it carefully.

Catherine Lowell

#4. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books ...

George Washington Carver

#5. If I could, I'd press my fingers through this screen; hold my favorite parts of you. Force lips through glass to steal a kiss.

Amanda Oaks

#6. Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Naomi Klein

#7. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

#8. I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

John Green

#9. The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.

Scott Weiss

#10. You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.

Rebecca

#11. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Andrew Carnegie

#12. I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.
"I'm no expert," I began, choosing my words carefully. "Well - actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.

Richelle Mead

#13. The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty ... The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

Samuel Adams

#14. As night falls silently all around,
She carefully turns the last page.

Rachel Lewis

#15. Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

Eknath Easwaran

#16. I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times

Jenny Colgan

#17. When we're creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading all of our carefully crafted text, figuring out how we've organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click. What

Steve Krug

#18. The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

Eric Ripert

#19. Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Anthony Trollope

#20. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca.

#21. [In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

James Madison

#22. You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Alice Cooper

#23. [He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"
She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you."
"Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me."
"Aww. You say the sweetest things."
"Don't I?

Kylie Scott

#24. A child's brain is like fly paper that hangs from a barn ceiling: it doesn't get to choose which memories fly away free and which memories stick to death.

Helen Peppe

#25. I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.

Rupi Kaur

#27. Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.

Karin Slaughter

#28. We might mean different things. How can you tell? Only by reading each of us carefully and seeing what each of us has to say - not by pretending that we are both saying the same thing. We're often saying very different things.

Bart D. Ehrman