The Joys Of Reading Quotes

#1. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.

Marsden Hartley

#2. When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

Dan Aykroyd

#3. The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.

Deyth Banger

#4. I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

Hillary Clinton

#5. There is more done with pens than with swords.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Richard Lewis

#7. Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

Irving Stone

#8. The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Josh Billings

#9. You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Ishmael Reed

#11. They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number
on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.

Lou Whitaker

#12. Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

Maya Angelou

#14. Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.

Ernie J Zelinski

#15. There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

#16. I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

#17. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Joseph Addison

#18. The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B

Susannah Cahalan

#19. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

James Salter

#20. Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#21. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Lee Iacocca

#22. There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

William Wilberforce

#23. And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tom Hayden