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  • English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. -- Ernest Istook
  • My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children. -- Corin Tucker
  • Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. -- Charles Scribner IV
  • I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. -- Jessye Norman
  • When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language. -- Dan Auerbach
  • I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. -- Jesmyn Ward
  • And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. -- Margaret Spellings
  • Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. -- Helen Fisher
  • It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. -- Stephen Hawking
  • The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading. -- Leslie Jamison
  • I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on. -- Seamus Heaney
  • I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. -- Michael Cadnum
  • 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
  • Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable. -- Jane Smiley
  • Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book. -- Ashwin Sanghi
  • At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. -- Kate Beckinsale
  • One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. -- Nick Cave
  • I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created. -- Amy Tan
  • People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
  • As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. -- Albert J. Nock
  • When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. -- Chath Piersath
  • Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. -- Craig Thompson
  • I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. -- William Eggleston
  • If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading. -- David Starkey
  • Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. -- Michelle Obama
  • To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. -- John Holmes
  • Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. -- Charles Scribner IV
  • I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. -- George Horace Lorimer
  • Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true. -- Jonis Agee
  • The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images. -- Luigi Ghirri
  • I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. -- Marge Piercy
  • Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language. -- Richelle Mead
  • Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something. -- Stephen King
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