Quotation Explorer - 'Read'

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read? - Grace Metalious
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. - Roberto Bolaño
Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. - Habeeb Akande
Dare to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to - Karl Ove Knausgård
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. - Cyril Connolly
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. - Mignon McLaughlin
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life. - Eustace Conway
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. - Giacomo Casanova
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. - Thomas Browne
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? - Philip G. Hamerton
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. - Hilary Duff
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. - Aaron Swartz
Don’t BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don’t let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities! - Lily Amis
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written? - Neil Leckman
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
A delight to read is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. - Anne Frank
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. - Abraham Lincoln
If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it. - Leo Tolstoy
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. - Flannery O'Connor
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. - Meg Rosoff
If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing! - Robert Ahaness
I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'. - Martijn Benders
I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer. - Andrea Dworkin
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. - Philip Pullman
I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. - Cypher Lx
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney
If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul. - Patricia Reilly Giff
The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. - Charles Jones
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. - W.H. Auden
...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else. - Charles Bukowski
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read. - Maryrose Wood
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.
I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. - Sarah Dessen
Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book. - Ann Patchett
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Sir Winston Churchill
Discover. Read. Learn. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh, sir!" Lord Teddie bounced on his feet. "Sir, I read about this sort of thing once, sir! The only way to solve it is to kill both of them. It was in the Bible!"The silence rung. Lord Teddie cowered at the King's look."Ah, never mind," he said. - Heather Dixon
Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue. - Patrick Hicks
The more I read, {the Bible] the more Paul sounds like a stroke victim, who never taught a thing that Jesus taught, and only quotes him once, in Acts, wrongly, and the 12 are constantly chastising him for his teachings. - Glenn Hefley
When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Looking In YOUR Eyes.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that. - John Gardner
Read, Learn, Grow. - Andrea L'Artiste
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. - Sarah MacLean
Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.) - Ellen Klages
My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. - Camille Paglia
[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself. - William Faulkner
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. - Albert Camus
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? - Gustave Flaubert
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes. - A.L. Kennedy
I read; I travel; I become - Derek Walcott
Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. - A.D. Posey
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith
You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me - Strickland W. Gillilan
when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in. - Eric Freh
You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. - Strickland Gillian
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived. - Margaret A. Edwards
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
Lost race? The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. Why have I never heard of these ‘Rathiuel’? Because, Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince’s skull, you do not care to read. - Leonard G. Mokos
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. - Giacomo Casanova
Until they create tools to read an individual's mind,secrets will exist and people will still need to unload their conscience to a disgruntled partner.Politician will still have to apologize for hidden acts of mischief and deceit against their constituency. - j.d.moise
I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word. - Rachel Wojnarowski
Read , read , he is the master of us all. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Euler
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. - Blaise Pascal
I am a part of all I have read. - John Kieran
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up. - George R.R. Martin
We don’t read the Bible, the Bible reads us. - David Paul Kikrpatrick
This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is. - Nikki Rowe
The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. - Bruno Schulz
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich... - Alice James
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out my heart leapt at the sight row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first? - Keith Donohue
Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. - Marchioness Townsend
To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest.
When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books. - Nathan Fillion
Write the book you want to read - Austin Kleon
MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY! - Alexandre Dumas
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. - William Shakespeare
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. - W. Somerset Maugham
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. - Daphne du Maurier
The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing - L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow
And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me. - Tahereh Mafi
Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love.)Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living. - Daniel Pennac
People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. - Kat Lehmann
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. - Stanisław Lem
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing."[The Guardian, 15 October 2013] - Neil Gaiman
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read - Oscar Wilde
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. - Jorge Luis Borges
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - Thomas Jefferson
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. - William Faulkner
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. - William Goldman
I read in self-defense. - Woody Allen
I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. - John Keats
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. - Lurlene McDaniel
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. - Darnell Lamont Walker
After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn. - Marty Rubin
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Write what you want to write; don't fear about who will read it. - Debasish Mridha
We read to know we are not alone. - C.S. Lewis
A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. - Soraya Diase Coffelt
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. - Israelmore Ayivor
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Ursula K. Le Guin
My advice to any girl ... read and learn about sexuality and surround yourself with people who you can talk to and who can support you through your journey. Be comfortable with who you are. Connect with others as you get to discover you are not alone. Don't suffocate yourself ... - Rena Otieno
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. - Shannon L. Alder
If you watch what people watch and read what people read, you are on the way to get the same results. - Deyth Banger
Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers. - Enock Maregesi
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. - Hesketh Pearson
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. - D.L. Moody
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. - W.H. Auden
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Gautama Buddha
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs
The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed. - Tonya Sheridan
It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. - Oscar Wilde
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. - Ann Marie Frohoff
I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me. - Jeanette Winterson
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. - J.K. Rowling
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. - Karl Kraus
It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life. - Soraya Diase Coffelt
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. - Roger Kahn
Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways. - Asa Don Brown
You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works. - Donald McCaig
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. - Rush Limbaugh
We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy. Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE - Jamaluddin Jamali
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean wherever my imagination ranges. - Anton Chekhov
Life is a poem most people never read. - Laurence Overmire
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China) - Aung San Suu Kyi
You may have read the poetry, but you haven't lived it. And that's what makes the difference. - Suzanne Harper
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. - Paxton Hood
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska
Read to rediscover. - Lailah Gifty Akita
She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked. - May Sinclair
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature. - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Shannon Hale
Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz - Angel L. Woodz
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski
He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that. - Matt Chandler
When a new book is published, read an old one. - Samuel Rogers
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. - Alain de Botton
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde
Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. - Swami Vivekananda
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
Live always in the best company when you read. - Sydney Smith
If you don't write, then read. - Sylvia L'Namira
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Mark Twain
Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. - Temple Emmet Williams
Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. - Lauren DeStefano
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination. - Debasish Mridha
I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale. - China Miéville
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. - Ambeth R. Ocampo
When you read my stories, I want you to see the world through my eyes; as if I based my work on you. Come away with me, and I'll show you a world that you've never seen before or ever want to leave. - Nila N. Brown
Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!"---, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories - Richard Bach
Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible. - Gabriel Neil
If you are brave, you will open the book and read it. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Read when you can.Teach when you ought.Learn when you must.Apply when you should. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar
The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fool’s mind judges a book by its title. - Ellen J. Barrier
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer. - Y.S. Lee
a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read. - Sanober Khan
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them. - Jazmin Anguiano
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles Caleb Colton
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. - Frank Serafini
To Succeed You Must Read - A.J. Briscoe
You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. - James Baldwin
When it comes to politics, "the facts far exceed our curiosity.""...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do.... - Walter Lippmann
For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. - Amit Kalantri
If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read. - Yaganesh Derasari
But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. - Gordon Atkinson
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. - María Kodama
Age is a number, not a soul. You can't read somebody entirely by a number. - Mekiah Johnson
In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them. - rassool jibraeel snyman
Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are. - Shana Chartier
Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure
If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. - Richard Due
The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. - David Alejandro Fearnhead
If you read, you will transform your life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I love to read. My education is self-inflicted - Groucho Marx
When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. - Colin Firth
People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery. - Deyth Banger
Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries! - Deyth Banger
Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as not Christian enough or just a little theologically lacking? - Nick Rynerson
The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way. - Geoffrey Wood
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten. - Roman Payne
Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read. - Kartik Mehta
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert
I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book. - Bill Maher
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. - John Waters
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil - Eminem
Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it. - Nikki Rowe
There’s no other way but work, work and work. Read widely, live wildly, plumb the depths of your­self, turn your­self inside out until you find your voice - Claire Meadows
Shit, I have already read this.... - Michael Pollack
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read. - Donalyn Miller
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read. - G.K. Chesterton
Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility - Milly Williamson
No two person, ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet. - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. - Benjamin Disraeli
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela
A book is not completed till it's read. - Salman Rushdie
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much. - Amit Kalantri
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. - Don Roff
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. - Pliny the Elder
It’s exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It’s magical! - Elaine Grey
It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. - Dan Barden
If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste. - Vinko Vrbanic
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. - Pliny The Elder
Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live! - Helen Deakin
If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time. - Matthew Donnelly
I NEVER SAY I LACK TIME,I KNOW MY PRIORITY PRIME,I BELIEVE KILLING TIME IS CRIME,I WORK EVEN THEY DO CHIME,I HAVE PEOPLE WHO READ MY MIME - merlin8thomas
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler
One must read poetry with one's nerves. - Wallace Stevens
If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You wake up and from where are sure that this which read on the pasport is true?? Are you sure??It's possible to be murder, to be a killer or somebody else! - Deyth Banger
If you feel alone, and if your heart is pure and your eyes still shine with the wonder of a child's, perhaps as you read these pages you'll find that the stars are smiling on you once more, that you can hear them as though they were five hundred million little bells. - A. G. Roemmers
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people. - Thomas Davidson
Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world. - Namsoon Kang
A must read book; the Holy Bible. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There are more writers who read than readers who write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel
My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see. - Deyth Banger
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that. - Sarah Rees Brennan
The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie. - Garrett Robinson
What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever. - Elizabeth George
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book. - Muriel Rukeyser
Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this.If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says Are you kidding? No one is going to want to read this drivel and keep on going. You’re going to revise and revise and then revise again anyway. - Jamie Freveletti
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. - Jorge Luis Borges
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory. - Ray Charles
She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say? - Eucharista Ward
...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people. - Neil Gaiman
My heart is an open book,but you don't know how to read it - Aditya Kaushik
I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book. - Enock Maregesi
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human. - Donald Miller
As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. - Stephen Colbert
The books you read in childhood shape the person you become. - Paula Berinstein
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. - Ambrose Bierce
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? - Italo Calvino
Read books - Deliaha Hicks
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. - Langston Hughes
I am a part of everything that I have read. - Theodore Roosevelt
Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. - Karen Witemeyer
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Bruce Barton
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. - Jennifer Weiner
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. - Stephen King
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust. - James Hudson Taylor
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. - Oscar Wilde
The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper - Bill Aitken
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. - Richard P. Denney
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. - Eudora Welty
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.
It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it. - Daniel Keyes
There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so little time that I fear I never will. - Roxie Hibberd (Smith ) ME
I haven't even read everything I wrote. - Karl Barth
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter
I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life. - Jeanette Winterson
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at. - A.D. Posey
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. - John Green
When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire. - Tyler Edwards
I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown. - Shandy L. Kurth
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. - David Sedaris
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading? - Ann Patchett
Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie. - Tim Goossens
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. - Woodrow Wilson
Read!... - The God
PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read. - Ambrose Bierce
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. - Denis Parsons Burkitt
Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get... - Deyth Banger
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
How can I survive without a book to read? - David Hill
I only wish to read, think and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. - Stephen King
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. - Todd Strasser
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. (Wellesly High School commencement speech, You Are Not Special, 6-12) - Teacher David McCullough
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde
Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state... - James Clerk Maxwell
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. - Lemony Snicket
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. - Desiderius Erasmus
I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book - J.K. Rowling
I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read. - Nicole Peeler
If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. - Margaret Atwood
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. - Terry Pratchett
I have a right to DNF a book I can't find a fuck to give about. Life is too short to read shitty books. - Sana Khalid
I'm a believer and I believe there is a more knowledgeable supreme being who created earth. I'm not surprise when I read the bible Psalm 14:1 which said ~ the fool says in his heart there is no God. - Uzoma Nnadi
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. - Benjamin Franklin
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. - Andrei Tarkovsky
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. - Orson Scott Card
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. - Elbert Hubbard
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson
To know more, read more, watch more, listen more! - Deyth Banger
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. - L.M. Montgomery
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. - Don Roff
Be great, read great books. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. - Israelmore Ayivor
He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. - Cormac McCarthy
If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else? - C. JoyBell C.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. - Will Rogers
As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so. - Shawn Michaels
I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you. - Kamand Kojouri
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
Read much, but not many books. - Benjamin Franklin
When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. - Marilynne Robinson
A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last. - Oswald Chambers
Success will not come when you read success Quotations .It won't leave once you inspired and apply it. - Pradeep
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch
If you don't read you will have nothing to write. - Debasish Mridha
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere? - J. Norman Collie
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know;and the more you know, the smarter you grow. - Jim Trelease
Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present. - Onyi Anyado
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. - D.H. Lawrence
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Write it as a dream, read it as a goal. - Sakurai Sho
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit. - Amy Hempel
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr! - Jennifer Donnelly
Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both. - Dawn Huntsman
The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. - Martina Tutková
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. - Tallulah Bankhead
Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading. - Matt
Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single day. I read fast, so I'm hoovering up lives at a ferocious pace, six or seven or eight in a week. I particularly love autobiographies: I can eat a whole person by sundown. - Caitlin Moran
don't read the success storiesyou will get messagebut read the failure storiesyou will get the ideas become successful - Asif Jaana
thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies...your neck, can I Savion on it? - Brandi L. Bates
I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked. - Franz Kafka
One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."-- - Mike Mankoff
My life is my book, but I can't read it. - Marty Rubin
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. - Woody Allen
I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence. - Rodindeadpan
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." - Paxton Hood
I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland. - Debasish Mridha
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. - Laura Anne Gilman
Cuddle with your children. Don't just read talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable. - Soraya Diase Coffelt
I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace; never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read. - Rae Carson
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. - Kira Hawke
We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist. - Lennox D.Lampkin
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that. - Sara Sheridan
oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it.. - angham
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. - George Burns
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell
To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring read a book. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? - Shannon L. Alder
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. - Junot Díaz
Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too. - William Zinsser
I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore. - Phil Volatile
How can you read this? There’s no pictures! Well, some people use their imagination. Gaston & Belle - Walt Disney Company
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. - Charlotte Eriksson
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. - David M. Ogilvy
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two. - Shannon Celebi
Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle
[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. - Simon Van Booy
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. - Henry Miller
It is great to read. You will discover wisdom. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime. - Amit Kalantri
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go. - Ann Brashares
A love-story is a book to be read by everyone whose heart beats for someone! - Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. - Frank Zappa
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
I used to think there was a secret when it came to success, until I read a shit load of books and posts and realized the secret is the millionaires are getting rich off idiots like me who believe there truly is a secret. - James Jean-Pierre
You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.The one that's out always looks the best - Will Rogers
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. - J.K. Rowling
If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really - Philip Roth
The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read. - Dani J. Caile
Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. - J.E.B. Spredemann
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! - Mitch Hedberg
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters. - Stephen Chbosky
It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do. - Erin M. Truesdale
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired - Israelmore Ayivor
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina
If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that. - Mark Driscoll
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances - Robert E. Lee
I Couldn't Look Straight In HER Eyes As I Already Know SHE Can Read My Eyes Without Reading My Lips.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. - William Faulkner
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. - Will Rogers
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. - Karl Barth
If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. - Neil Gaiman
The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read. - Jim Rohn
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. - Jack Canfield
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. - Abraham Lincoln
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. - Douglas Adams
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. - Karl Lagerfeld
Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive. - Shannon L. Alder
It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one. - Deyth Banger
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. - Pete Seeger
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind - Andy Andrews
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. - Holbrook Jackson
This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff
If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read? - Michael Bassey Johnson
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles
The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable. - Jane Austen
The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul. - Moosa Rahat
You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit
We find no evidence that Congress intended to modify the nostrum to read, 'crime does not pay, except for attorney's fees.'
People stop thinking when they cease to read. - Denis Diderot
Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. - Richie Norton
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. - Christopher Marlowe
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. - Vera Nazarian
It's more important to be read than paid. - S.L. Walker
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James Baldwin
The world belongs to those who read. - Rick Holland
I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word. - R.C. Sproul
I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles I can’t be read, can’t be understood,neither by me nor the greatest of minds I am too big, I am too small, to be processed or seen by the naked eyeI am too dim, I am too bright, to appear in the shadows or the sunshine. - Sanober Khan
You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself. - C.E. Dimond
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it. - Alasdair Gray
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them."[Life magazine, December 10, 1965] - Rex Stout
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. - James Jones
I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it. - Michelle Franklin
We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between. - Phyllis Theroux
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945) - J.D. Salinger
I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see. - أبو حامد الغزالي
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You are what you read because your mind is the sit of your knowledge acquried - The Shepherds'Muster
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. - Anthony Trollope
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. - Anne McCaffrey
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. - Augustine of Hippo
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt
I write and read so that I can escape reality, for it is unkind. - Mikaela A. Ingram
If you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now. - Mei Jancorda
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read. - Ausonius
Read. Read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. - Roberto Bolaño
Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year. - Ellen Willis
Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons. - Shallu Jindal
People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual. - Joan Vass
Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. - Bob Smith
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. - Banksy
We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act. - Alberto Manguel
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer. - J.D. Cunegan
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. - Barbara Kingsolver
I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns. - W.B. Yeats
If you want to know a country, read its writers. - Aminatta Forna
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. - Barbara Kingsolver
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. - E.A. Bucchianeri
Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read. - Maira Cheeda
Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010) - Seymour Simon
Shhhhh, I am trying to read. - Anna del C. Dye
said:"Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy wealthy and wise"Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. E. Haldeman-Julius - Ben Franklin
For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school. - Stephen King
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. - Blaise Pascal
It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Nahisha McCoy
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. - Grant Morrison
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. - Kurt Vonnegut
Books are the mirror of the soul ; the more you read the more you appear. - Osunsakin Adewale
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound
Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".) - Charles Baxter
I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson
The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal. - Joshua Rogers
Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen
When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance. - Unarine Ramaru
Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. - Donna Lynn Hope
Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told 'em it was a good idea. - George Carlin
Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs. - Neil Diamond
A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies. - Kira Hawke
My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems. - Genesis Quihuis
Most people don't know how to find the answers, so here how I do it. I just read a book or a film about the topic and I found a lot - Deyth Banger
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel! - Mehmet Murat ildan
English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French is what I speak, read, and hear almost 24/7--is trying to take over the no. 2 spot. - Apol Lejano-Massebieau
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men. - Apostle Paul
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
I know you can read me, and I can often hear your thoughts too. Makes for an interesting relationship, don't you think? - Evette Davis
When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled minds that can read the intent of the dream in terms of energy, frequency & vibration...! - Vishwanath S J
I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books. - Anonymous
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus. - Thomas M. Disch
Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. - Aldous Huxley
Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book. - BeaOngjoco
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. - Iain Banks
If your best friends do not read books, they read you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. - Stephanie Connolly
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. - Voltaire
I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read. - K.D. Green
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. - Tom Schulman
I make a rule for myself. That if I am going to buy a book, and have it on my bookshelf, I am going to someday read it. - Mekiah Johnson
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. - Paula Fox
Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'". - Belle from Kentucky
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. - Dylan Thomas
Anyone who doesn't read must be horribly stupid. - Bella
Every word is beautiful; if you read it with your heart not with your eyes - Wrushank Sorte
Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure
When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world. - Debasish Mridha
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? - Seneca
Enjoy the read! - Kirstin van Dyke
Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way. - Katie Douglas
Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous - Dominic Tomasi
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. - Bruno Bettelheim
Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people. - Belsebuub
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day. - Ernest Hemingway
If you believe everything you read, better not read. - Japanese Proverb
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - George Macaulay Trevelyan
Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read. - Sharon Stone
A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long. - Sloan Wilson
I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems. - Unknown
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it. - Lana Del Rey
I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. - Douglas Coupland
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. - Stephen King
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. - Charles Caleb Colton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton
Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective. - Annie Murphy Paul
I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time. - Deyth Banger
We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading. - Richard Marius
No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die,they hide in pairsand read about themselves—in colour, with their eyelids shut. - Craig Raine
Some of us read the Bible to quote God’s words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose. - Sunday Adelaja
Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality. - Amit Kalantri
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. - Voltaire
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. - G. K. Chesterton
I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said. - David Mitchell
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston S. Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. - Sir Winston Churchill
I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul. - Cindy Aime
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. - Frederick Douglass
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense? - Rudy Francisco
Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read... - Rabindranath Tagore
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. - Eric Hoffer
When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. - N.T. Wright
When I want to read a novel, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. - Marilyn Jager Adams
Read great books and be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents. - George Wallace
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write. - Laini Taylor
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke
Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures. - Orhan Pamuk
You yourself are a letter, read and known by all men. - Steven Sutherland
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em - Eminem
Read the great books, gentlemen, Mr. Monte said one day. Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. - Pat Conroy
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka
Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy. - Carew Papritz
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. - Jane Hamilton
When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence. - Mustafa SULTAN
There is so many books in the world, so many books on my TBR, that it would be impossible to read each and every one in my lifetime. But all that matters is that I went on these adventures, away to another life, apart from the one I am living now, and I enjoyed them. That's all that matters. - Mekiah Johnson
Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that. - Mark Vonnegut
Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it - Anamika Mishra
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy
Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence. - Lemony Snicket
I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world. - Deyth Banger
Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul - Ace Antonio Hall
I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. - Kedar Joshi
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it - Kathy Acker
My desire is to embrace, to explore, to dance, to hug, to inspire, to know, to learn, to love, to read, to search, to seek, to share, to write……! - Lailah Gifty Akita
When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. - Joss Whedon
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. - Gordon Atkinson
Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it! - shuhab
Read; explore; write; read; explore; write; read... - David Doyle
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me. - Judy Blume
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. - Jazz Feylynn
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. - Langston Hughes
I done something bad, it was to believe that to read a book you must be a stupid guy. No people which read they are clever - the guy who said this is stupid guy! - Deyth Banger
History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie. - Sara Sheridan
If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. - Paul Theroux
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you - Barack Obama
Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information. - Israelmore Ayivor
People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution. - Amit Kalantri
Everywhere I read, I see a rush for love, if it comes knocking and your not ready you'll miss it; bla bla fucking bla... If love is, LOVE it wouldn't miss me and if it did, it wasn't worth my time to begin with. Never should the most important emotion of our journey be rushed. - Nikki Rowe
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. - Jenim Dibie
Read enough books. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life. - Matthew Donnelly
Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance. - Matthew Donnelly
If you read the bible from cover to cover you will want to start it all over again. You find something new each time. - Amanda Penland
Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE. - Cyc Jouzy
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... - J. R. R. Tolkien
I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. - Tara Bray Smith
First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of. - Olawale Robyns
Read more.Exercise more.Work more.Give more. - Matshona Dhliwayo
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. - G.K. Chesterton
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. - Sir Francis Bacon
I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there. - Anonymous
To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. - Deyth Banger
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler
Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry. - N'Zuri Za Austin
Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics. - Maura Kelly
Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. - Michael Foot
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope. - Friedrich Hayek
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. - Christian Bauman
If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? - L. M. Montgomery
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright
(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill with her own ideas until she was fed up with patching up the makeshift constructs. - Gerhard Amanshauser
What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read! - Shandy L. Kurth
My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all! - Sara Sheridan
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Sir Thomas Beecham
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
The website increases my excitement when I read, Hark, the pies are calling! My excitement is short-lived, however. I read the page again and realize that it is pipes that are calling, not pies as I had hoped. I am disappointed. I personally react better to the call of pies. - Aefa Mulholland
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read. - Amit Kalantri
If you can read, you can go anywhere. - Ruth Burke
you can't read Human mind by #Psychology... you can read their mind by talking with them at night.. - Self_Thought
It is possible to find the passion to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. - Groucho Marx
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. - Charles Dickens
Read everyday quotes start from easy which don't want a lot of thinking, then average,then something complex. This will re-wire your brain, however if you find a book of quotes I suggest you to read all quotes slow and even if you don't get a quote or quotes read them as much time as possible. - Deyth Banger
Somewhere I read, if Apple is an school then Samsung is the brilliant student. In Indian market I can say that Micromax is the smartest student - Anoop Raghav
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die. - Patrick Rothfuss
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it. - Jürgen Moltmann
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - Augustine of Hippo
Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. - Lani Brown
Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask? - Peter Rogers
It's easier to quote poets than to read them. - Allison Barrows
The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again. - Akshay Vasu
So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. - Christian A. Dumais
I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see. - Shandy L. Kurth
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? - William Shakespeare
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written. - Mary M. Lund
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become. - A.D. Posey
Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential. - Amanda Joy Bruns
The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true. - Mark Donnelly
If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. - Abhijit Naskar
I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express. - krisangelagb
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. - Jim Rohn
I read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. - Oscar Wilde
Whenever I read Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote, 'Hell is other people,' it's like he's right there in the room with me. - John Alejandro King
We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs? - Paul Gitwaza
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. - Lawrence Clark Powell
Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you? - Jennifer Bardsley
Read books and be happy. - Vanessa Dela Cruz
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. - Thomas Carlyle
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Samuel Johnson
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. - R.L. Stine
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. - Peter S. Jennison
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. - Britney Spears
People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005] - Lemmy Kilmister
How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth... - Deyth Banger
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite. - Besa Kosova
Things to know from books to read - Kip Koehler
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. - Ansel Adams
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. - Samuel Johnson
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book I call that viciousness! - Friedrich Nietzsche
Every day you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter, do it so well such that when others read it; you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. - John Burroughs
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do. - Clive James
Don't focus on the words i write,pay attention to the ones i don't.These lines won't tell you much about me,try to read in between these lines. - Anjum Choudhary
All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love. - Kamand Kojouri
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King
when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters. - lauren klarfeld
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally. - Shannon L. Alder
It feels great to read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison - Sean Liburd
Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books. - Munia Khan
The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta. - Deyth Banger
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. - Matt Groening
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. - Margaret Peterson Haddix
What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life. - Walt Whitman
If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you! - Philip L. Moore
I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. - Ryan Lilly
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history - Iain Banks
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it. - Paul Fussell
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon
I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. - Daniel T. O'Hara
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. - Dana Carvey
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. - Bill Gates
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? - Nicky Wire
You are what you eat and read. - Maya Corrigan
They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words. - La Kata E.K.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. - Rumer Godden
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw
Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does. - Louise Doughty
If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards. - Mary Karr
Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. - Srinidhi.R
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. - Annie Dillard
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.
Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within - Look Im A Cat
When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers? - Sara Sheridan
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it. - Sara Sheridan
We become the books we read. - Matthew Kelly
Read History ToCreate History - K Kapoor
An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. - Debasish Mridha
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way - Sam Raimi
Read something no one is reading, think something no one is thinking, and do something no one is doing. - Danny Deaubé
I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life. - Deyth Banger
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. - Patricia A. McKillip
Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person. - Reddit user coolstoryreddit
You can build your strength, If you read enough books! - Lailah Gifty Akita
I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind. - Saurabh Sharma
The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. - Stéphane Mallarmé
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification. - Sara Sheridan
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. - Morrissey
And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference. - Lourd de Veyra
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. - Doris Lessing
Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully. - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? - Ivana Hruba
For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often. - Jim George
I love to read for my pleasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page. - Augustine of Hippo
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... - Woodrow Wilson
Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls. - Eugene Mirman
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)] - Warren Zevon
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. - Don Roff
Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up - Amy Plum
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett
Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind’s eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence. - Debasish Mridha
No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book. - Prakhar Srivastav
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless.We read them for their Words, not for their deeds. - Max Vegaritter
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. - Barbara Kingsolver
I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. - Stanisław Lem
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain
Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read. - Winston S. Churchill
I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. - Patricia Highsmith
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. - Toni Morrison
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. - Roseanne Barr
You have to want the book enough to read it. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. - Sui Ishida
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. - Thomas Mann
Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or the street cries all about.Where I may read at all my easeboth of the new and old,For a jolly good book whereon to lookis better to me than gold - John Wilson
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. - Edna Ferber
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves. - Steve Stern
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. - Dr. Seuss
And it's true what I read about joy. It's the kind of happiness that not only fills you up but spills over. Really, all you have to do is look for it, and then have the strength to let it in. And believe it or not, that's the hardest part. - Jolene Perry
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. - Philip Dormer Stanhope
I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future. - Debasish Mridha
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death. - tumblr
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment - Joe Queenan, One for the Books
- Why'd you even think I'd read your diploma before, during, or after buying 10 copies of it in an all-you-can-drink online bar? - If I could drink what I read, I'd probably still be drunk on Joyce's Ulysses. I should've chased it with a racer.- and Jarod Kintz - Stefan D
The survival spirit; either read or write a story. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him. - Isaac Goldberg
Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing. - Hira Shahid Kazim
I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are. - Andrés Neuman
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. - Walt Whitman
There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell. - Hugh of St. Victor
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. - Henry David Thoreau
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. - James Baldwin
For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. - Stephen J. Rivele
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. - Blind Melon
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. - David Rose
Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you. - Sanchita Pandey
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe. - Werner Herzog
I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn’t matter - Rebecca Lloyd
‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. - György Ligeti
Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests. - H.P. Lovecraft
Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironing to do"Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card - Mock of the week the show
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it. - Markus Zusak
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing. - Oscar Wilde
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. - Harold Bloom
As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer! - Deyth Banger
The way we can replenish our memories is to look back at textual information that we have either written or read before. If that method is accomplished, we can comprehend and complete tasks that require us to use more critical thinking. - Saaif Alam
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. - Hank Green
Death is not good. It’s just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it. - Aditi Bose
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. - Aleister Crowley
Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page. - B.B. Free
Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. - Katrina Monroe
Begin to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. - Samuel Johnson
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. - William Shakespeare
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) - Arthur Schopenhauer
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs - Karl Lagerfeld
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. - Carl Sagan
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. - César Chávez
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense. - Garth Risk Hallberg
People come and people go, but it's rare that one makes enough of an impact in life, that others will read as history. - Auliq Ice
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. - Alice Walker
People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man. - Lionel Suggs
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike
Your mind is your library of what you read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Aglaya just rolled her eyes. "You're like a ten year-old.""Ten-and-a-half," Kev defended. "But I read at a fourteen year-old level. - Larry Gent
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - Hilaire Belloc
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer. - David Morrell
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
search and read my blog at pankajsundali.blogspot.in - Pankaj Sundali
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. - Abraham Lincoln
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read. - John Godfrey Saxe
I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer". - Robert Clark
By reading quotes i realized that some of them containing simple words, but this simple words could change our lives.how if we read the holy Quran That has the best words , it will change our lives and Our death .Thank God that I was born Muslim - Abood Dweik
It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests. - C.S. Lewis
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? - Gautama Buddha
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever. - R.J. Dennis
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. - J.K. Rowling
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Oscar Wilde
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. - Keith Donohue
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... - Ray Bradbury
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. - Rob Thurman
Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something. - John Hannah
Begin to read, write and think. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread. - Ellen Rose
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. - Gene Wolfe
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. - Malcolm X
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. - Harper Lee
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. - Selwyn Champion
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - C.S. Lewis
It feels good read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn
The more you read, the better you are informed. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. - Adrienne Rich
I have read your book and much like it. - Moses Hadas
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. - Mae West
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. - W.E.B. Du Bois
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them! - Ken Puddicombe
Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films. - Deyth Banger
1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA - James Dalton
Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see. - K.C. OBI
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. - Gordon B. Hinckley
I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. - William Hope Hodgson
As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. - Jeffrey Lang
My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read! - Tuula Kallioniemi
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. - Susan Sontag
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. - Judy Blume
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. - Emil Cioran
What words cannot convey ... the mind can read. - Stephen Richards
Read my book and you shall know thee - Oscar Sanders
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W.H. Auden
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. - Joss Whedon
[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. - David McCullough
Rather than a situation where people are naturally finding themselves reading the same thing and then talking about it, some readers are responding to celebrity in the hope that what they read will enable them to join an international conversation. - Tim Parks
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. - Paxton Hood
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". - Lyndon B. Johnson
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. - C.S. Lewis
Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think. - Debasish Mridha
God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it. - Elizabeth George
I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody. - R. Peck
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. - Harold Bloom
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. - Neil Gaiman
I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. - Moffat Machingura
Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep. - Andreas Harpas
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time. - Nadine Gordimer
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. - Edmund Wilson
Mary-Lynnette: "You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'."Ash: "Why not?"Mary-Lynnette: "Because Jane Austen was a human."Ash: "How do you know?"Mary-Lynnette: "Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig."Ash: "Yes, well, that I can't argue. - L.J. Smith
I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time. - Elizabeth Berg
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010) - George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you. - Shannon L. Alder
People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book. - Deyth Banger
Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line - Priyansh Shah
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. - China Miéville
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. - Ezra Taft Benson
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying. - Melissa Marr
If the ties that bind ever do come looseIf forever ever ends for youIf that ring gets a little too tightYou might as well read me my last rights. - The Band Perry
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. - Stephen Leacock
I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth. - Michael M. Thomas
Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". - John Gay
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain
Humans are easy to read, because what they’re not saying speaks volumes. - Joel T. McGrath
If your best friends do not read books, they reads you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do. - Harold Bloom
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun. - Groucho Marx
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. - John Steinbeck
I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. - Seth Grahame-Smith
...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what I have and you are asking what more???Check out horror and try to understand it! - Deyth Banger
What I do now for the people they don't understand it, but when they found it they won't have chance to back 10 or 5 years and to read this which I have and to use it for something more than this. - Deyth Banger
On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk. - Sara Sheridan
By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The more you read, the more you will love to read. - Lailah Gifty Akita
No two persons ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson
I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome power of reading on my own. - Daniel Whyte III
God is a book I can no longer read. - Floriano Martins
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion - Olga GOA
The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some. - Hank Moody
If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson
Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age. - Ben Johnson
If I could always read I should never feel the want of company. - George Gordon Byron
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. - Abraham Lincoln
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. - Don DeLillo
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. - Sherman Alexie
I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. - Emilie Autumn
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich
Religion is to be realized, not read or taught. - Abhijit Naskar
To read is to climb the high places! - Mehmet Murat ildan
What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read. - Caroline Myss
Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering. - Shannon L. Alder
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. - Sara Sheridan
When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them. - Gerard VanDerleun
We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. - Robert Henri
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? - Joseph Henry Jackson
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton
Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need. - Ace Antonio Hall
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh lord this is just what I needed to read this morning, thank you, I'm still laughing. This menopause shit sucks and I was very depressed about today, now it's a little lighter. Thank You!! Laurie - Blog reader
As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah... - Roy C. Marien
To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live". - Jane Evershed
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. - Georges F. Doriot
Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. - Walter Farley
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. - Sarah Kay
No, I haven't read the New Testament, but I read the Old Testament and liked it very, very much.
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] - George Bernard Shaw
Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter’s cursive writing. - T.K. Naliaka
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. - Michael A. Stackpole
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. - Arnold Lobel
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it - Warren Ellis
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others. - J.W. Lord
Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks
They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while. - Alistair Cross
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. - Brandon Sanderson
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. - Richard Peck
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey
The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read. - Donna Lynn Hope
Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days. - Nicholaa Spencer
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam. - George Carlin
I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. - George R.R. Martin
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. - Morgan Spurlock
If we do not read the word of God, how could we know His thoughts? - Lailah Gifty Akita
The more I read, the less I know. - Zeshan Ali Sheikh
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman
For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare
My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. - Shannon L. Alder
we became the books we read. - Matthew Kelly
For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read. - Amit Kalantri
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. - Ezra Pound
If their tears could be read,as the blind can read brailleWould your eyes then be openedto another & how they feel?Without condemnation or any aversions from withinCould you set aside judgementwhile seeking total absolution? - Christine Upton
Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy! - Deyth Banger
The mystery that surrounded how their souls were tied, would certainly make a great read in decades to come, but for the time being though, they had to surrender and observe, as destiny played chess with their lives, eager to prevent them from running away from it. - Pertunia Lehoka
If you are still alive when you read this,close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black. - Bill Knott
I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this? - Deyth Banger
A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ... - C.J. Heck
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons. - Roman Payne
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters... - William Shakespeare
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde
If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can reawaken your childhood ability to use a smartphone before you could read. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. - Warren Buffett
I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it. - Nicholas Browne
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. - C.S. Lewis
I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn. - Patricia Goldbach
Most people can't understand why they want to read so much.Likeminded types understand that they wish they had more time to read. When studying famous intellects, a pattern emerges of phases of insatiable reading for several years followed by a personal transformation into great achievements. - Peter Rogers
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth. - Jim George
If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms. - Jim George
I wonder how many books you have read? - Lailah Gifty Akita
It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any’. What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from. - David Mitchell
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. - G.K. Chesterton
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading. - Sin Mils
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. - Carlos Fuentes
Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply. - Sunday Adelaja
Read and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word. - Cornelia Funke
We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead. - Robert Vanleeuwen
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be. - Allen Smith
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison
Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines... - lauren klarfeld
If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me. - Daniel Willey
And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. - David McCullough Jr.
If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms. - Jim George
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. - Louisa May Alcott
She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. - Kamand Kojouri
Hey everyone. This is , the one who wrote a A BOY I ONCE KNEW and BLACK SHEEP AND KISSING COUSINS. To those of you who read either one, thanks! But another , not me, wrote WOMEN AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION and VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. Just setting the record straight! - Elizabeth Stone
I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he’s old enough to read it. - John Waters
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. - J.R.R. Tolkien
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. - Stephen King
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages - John Geddes
When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth. - Álvaro de Campos
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P.J. O'Rourke
From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort. - Sunday Adelaja
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. - J.K. Rowling
Read enough books to build your sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. - Francis Bacon
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. - Scott Corbett
Best gift you give your kids is to learn them how to read and write". - dontknow
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it. - Angie Sage
Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed. - Fakeer Ishavardas
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