Read Quotes

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.