Pastoral Resources

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

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.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.