Read Quotes

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I read part of it all the way through.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.