Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. – Bob Ney
The journey that ‘In Praise of Slowness’ has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons. – Carl Honore
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. – Anatole Broyard
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church. – Angus T. Jones
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It’s amazing how they can say, ‘This week, this might happen,’ and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness. – Anna Silk
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. – Charles de Gaulle
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I’m afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job. – Aaron Swartz
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. – Ashwin Sanghi
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they’re reading the damn screen. That’s more reading than people used to do. – Bill Murray
It’s a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script. – Chiwetel Ejiofor
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. – Alice James
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so – look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading. – Claire Tomalin
The fat lady hasn’t sung yet. We’ll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. – Bobby Orr
I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I’d think, ‘How can you do that?’ But it’s so exhausting, you can’t be ‘on’ 12-14 hours a day. – Cate Blanchett
I have to entertain, because if I don’t entertain you, you’re not going to continue reading. But if I’m not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don’t want to take the journey. – Bebe Moore Campbell
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that’s something totally different from the slow way you read something if it’s a tune; which to me a poem has to be. – Alice Oswald
I’m reading a book, because I’m brainy. No, it is a book – if you don’t know, it is like a blog except bigger. – Craig Ferguson
Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you’re 3 or 4 years old. – Alison Gopnik
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. – Ben Stein
It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you’ve read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I’m one of them isn’t true; my style is intrinsically my own. – Ashwin Sanghi
Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. – Anita Elberse
Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you’re willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole. – Annie Parisse
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn’t thinking about the big picture. I didn’t notice what they said on television, I wasn’t reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. – Boris Becker
