Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This
works out to about one book per week, 50 books per
year, and will guarantee your success.
- Brian Tracy
Read something positive every night and listen to
something helpful every morning.
- Tom Hopkins
The world is a book, and those who do not travel
read only a page.
- Augustine (354-430)
One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to
their offspring and to their society -- is to read
to children
- Carl Sagan
Read the best books first, or you may not have a
chance to read them at all
- Henry David Thoreau
The minute that you read something that you can't
understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up
by a lawyer.
- Will Rogers
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will
some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and
crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver
hooks.
- John Donne
I read and walked for miles at night along the
beach, writing bad blank verse and searching
endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out
of the darkness and change my life. It never
crossed my mind that that person could be me.
- Anna Quindlen
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine
poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable
words
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a
book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
- Virginia Woolf`
I always read the last page of a book first so
that if I die before I finish I'll know how it
turned out.
- Nora Ephron (1941-)
US author, screenwriter
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too
much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read
too much and uses his own brain too little falls
into lazy habits of thinking
- Albert Einstien
It is only by introducing the young to great
literature, drama and music, and to the excitement
of great science that we open to them the
possibilities that lie within the human spirit --
enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
- Eric Anderson
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty
which every good citizen owes to his country.
- George Washington
I have written my life in small sketches, a little
today, a little yesterday. I look back on my life
a good day's work, it was done and I feel
satisfied with it. I made the best out of what
life offered.
- Grandma Moses