Quotes about reading

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Isaac Newton

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

Mark Twain

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

Charles Darwin

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

Winston Churchill

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

David Bowie

I read in my guidebook that Michelangelo was miserable while painting his masterpiece. His back and neck ached. Paint fell constantly into his hair and eyes. He couldn’t wait to be finished, he told friends. If even Michelangelo didn’t like his work, I thought, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Phil Knight

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Will Rogers

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

I probably shouldn’t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

Sheryl Sandberg