Pastoral Resources

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

I enjoyed reading as a child.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.