Reading Life Quotes:

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fantasy, Reader, Thousand, Inspirational Reading, Favourite Book

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

The man who never reads lives only one.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Men, He Man, Inspirational Reading, Favourite Book, Reading Inspirational

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Friendship, Book, Making Friends, Bff

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Achievement

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

- Mary Ellen Chase

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

- Confucius

topic: Happiness, Happy, Powerful, Always Happy, Just Want To Be Happy

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Ruth Rendell

source: Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

topic: Reading, Book, Life Is, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Meaningless Life, Most Memorable

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Book Reading, Ink And Paper

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

- Mortimer Adler

source: "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Reading, Speed Reading, Book Reading

Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

- Juan Enriquez

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Powerful, Reading, Writing, Reading Life

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Reading, Magazines, Worst, Reading Life

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

- Alexander Chee

topic: Reading, Book, Memorable, Zola, Reading Life

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Reading, Justice, Decision, Reading Life

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

- John Updike

topic: Life Is Too Short, Reading, Writing, Explicit, Good Taste

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

- Kevin Brockmeier

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Nice, Book, Reading, Reading Life

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Reading Life