Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I hardly went to school.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I don’t get bored.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.