Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths THEATER.
~ Gail Godwin
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
~ Robert Holman
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them
too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion
and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when
it becomes a social act.
~ Orson Welles
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything --gestures,
sounds, words, screams, light, darkness --rediscovers itself at precisely the
point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations . . .
~ Antonio Artaud
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the
return of art to life. –
~ Oscar Wilde
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human
beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
~ Thornton Wilder
You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience,
- and each must give something
~ Kenneth Haigh
Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
~ Abhinavagupta
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred;
it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in
having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~ Wynetka Ann Reynolds
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We read to know we are not alone.
~ C.S. Lewis
Words are the voice of the heart.
~ Confucius
Literature is my Utopia.
~ Helen Keller
Fiction is like a spider's web,
attached ever so lightly perhaps,
but still attached to life at all four corners.
~ Virginia Woolf
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
~ B. F. Skinner
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself
a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The way a book is read-
which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book-
can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
~ Norman Cousins
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day,
if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day,
it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
~ Horace Mann
The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
~ Dr. Seuss
Books are a uniquely portable magic
~ Stephen King
If we encounter a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he reads.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more
than people who cannot or will not read.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
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.
~ S.I. Hayakawa
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can
get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature
dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~ Barbara Tuchman
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~ Garrison Keillor
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Never judge a book by its movie.
~ J.W. Eagan
Books have a life of their own.
~ Latin Proverb
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
~ Tom Clancy
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change
your life.
~ Helen Exley
Medicine for the soul.
~ Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
~ Samuel Johnson
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~ Gilbert Highet
There should be a little voice in your head like the storyteller
is saying it. And if there's not, then you're just lookin' at the words.
~ Keisha (student)
Books have to be read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain.
A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation
revealed to the West.
~ E. M. Forster
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message
to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps
thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak
to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
~ Charles Kingsley
I read A Wrinkle in Time three times in a row once, when I was twelve, because
I couldn't bear for it to end.
~ Anna Quindlen
Books are like old friends. You know them well and they are fun to visit again
and again. Like a visit with an old friend, reading something familiar is fun
and supports the development of the reader. Old favorites are selections children
have already read and know well and are the first thing to read in the tutoring
session. We recommend rereading at least two old favorites if time allows.
~ Lesley Mandel Morrow and Barbara J. Walker
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which
it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes
of our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes
you think.
~ James McCosh
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body
to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered
over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began
to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
~ H. G. Wells
Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some few are to be chewed and digested.
~ Francis Bacon
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Enthusiasm is contagious; start an epidemic.
~ Don Ward
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success.
~ Anonymous
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
~ B. F. Skinner
Nobody cares how much you know unless they know how much you care.
~ Author unknown
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Reading aloud to children teaches vocabulary in one of the most natural ways
possible. Most of the questions come from them rather than the teacher. Words
that are puzzling can be quickly explained in the context of the story.
~ Frank B. May Reading as Communication
Choice isn't just about picking a book. Choice is about allowing reluctant
readers to retain ownership of, and to take responsibility for, the processes
in which they are engaged and the topics they care about. Putting choice into
their hands allows reluctant readers to feel the power and control over reading
that all good readers feel. --
~ Ron Jobe, Mary Dayton-Sakari
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
~ Mason Cooley
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill
Reading is the single most important factor in America today . . .
The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow.
The smarter you are, the longer you stay in school and the more diplomas you
earn. The more diplomas you have, the more days you are employed. The more diplomas
you have, the more your children will achieve in school. And the more diplomas
you have, the longer you will live.
~ Jim Trelease
Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into
the wonderful world of the written word; someone has to show them the way.
~ Orville Prescott
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something
worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that
will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out
toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
~ Katherine Patterson
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework.
~ Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that
when he reads, the gist of the story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.
~ Marie Clay
Children should spend less time completing workbooks and skill sheets...there
is little evidence that these activities are related to reading achievement.
~ Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, and Ian A.G. Wilkinson
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
~ George M. Adams
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
~ Allan Bloom
Children have more need of models than of critics.
~ Joseph Joubert
Teachers don’t just teach; they can be vital personalities who help
young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves.
A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
~ Charles Platt
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe
and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education
wins the race.
~ John F. Kennedy
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
~ Charles Morgan
If you treat students the way they are, you never improve them. If you treat
them the way you want them to be, you do.
~ J.W. von Goethe
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary
~ Thomas Carruthers
As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say
~ Anonymous
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation
to another.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who
tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with
a sharp stick called truth,
~ Dan Rather
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