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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

I read the Bible every day.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.