Read Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

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.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?

You can never trust what you read.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

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.

People read me but they don't subscribe.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.