A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.
读一本书就像有一根稻草插进作者的灵魂，吸一口又一口，而不会降低智慧的水位。
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.
阅读单词会让你记住它们。你永远不会忘记。即使你没有机会细想音乐，你也能在脑海中听到它。
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
如果我以前没有读过一本书，无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的，无论从任何意义上说，对我来说都是新的。
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
读一本小说，书中所有的人物都表现出耐心、勤奋、贞洁和延迟的满足感，这可能是一种相当枯燥的经历。
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
对双胞胎来说，大声朗读是我能坐下来的唯一机会。我给他们读图画书，直到他们自己读为止。
The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in his presence.
在信徒的生命中，神的同在是如此重要。在他面前，你有充足的一切使你的生活舒适。
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
读书太多是一种心灵的压抑，熄灭了自然的蜡烛，这就是世界上有那么多无知的学者的原因。
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
当我二十多岁身无分文的时候，我会先买书再买食物。一顿饭可以支撑你几个小时，一本好书可以支撑你一生。
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury.
阅读不是奢侈品，艺术也不是奢侈品。这关乎你的灵魂，也关乎你自己。如果说读书是一种奢侈，那么做人也是一种奢侈。
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.
有些人读关于音乐家的书，而我读音乐书。不是关于音乐的书，而是充满乐谱的书。有趣的阅读。
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
读书对棒球运动员不好。对他的眼睛不好。即使我的眼睛有一点点不好，我也不能打出本垒打。所以我放弃了阅读。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
每一个懂得读书的人都有能力使自己变得伟大，使自己的生活方式多样化，使自己的生活充实、有意义、有趣。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。