Quotes of Recitation - somelinesforyou

“ What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. ”

- William Zinsser

“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? ”

- William Hart Coleridge

“ Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! ”

- Andrew Brown

“ Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”

- Mortimer J. Adler

“ In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ”

- Anthony Hope

“ Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ One man is as good as another until he has written a book. ”

- Benjamin Jowett

“ I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. ”

- Spike Lee

“ The newest books are those that never grow old. ”

- George Holbrook Jackson

“ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ”

- Carl Van Doren

“ The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ I cannot live without books. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ A good book has no ending. ”

- R. D. Cumming

“ Learn as much by writing as by reading. ”

- Lord Acton

“ I keep reading between the lies. ”

- Goodman Ace

“ Books are for nothing but to inspire. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Easy reading is damn hard writing. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ A book should be luminous not voluminous. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ A book should be luminous not voluminous. ”

- Christian Nevell Bovee
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