Reading Readiness

Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or readiness:

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There was a look in the eyes of the Brangwens as if they were expecting something unknown, about which they were eager. They had that air of readiness for what would come to them, a kind of surety, an expectancy, the look of an inheritor.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)