Read Quotes

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom
that is, in disorganized wildness. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book. — Christopher Morley

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right. — Billy Graham

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing — Leopold Fechtner

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock

I stand by whatever I read from Univision. — Donald Trump

Some people read books for fun. — Richelle Mead

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read
what not to see or what not to listen to. — Ezra Taft Benson

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. — Victor Hugo

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

I have always advised men to read. — Mary Harris Jones

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life. — Giancarlo Esposito

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it. — Jonathan Kozol

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. — Dean Koontz

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine

Does one ever read a politician's books? — Gore Vidal

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston S. Churchill

God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them. — Pamela Read Von Gohren

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment. — Vivian Vande Velde

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison

Another of the older views, and they are simply read out — Thomas S. Kuhn

I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate. — Robert Schell

Read in oreder to live — Gustave Flaubert

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro

Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space. — Elin Hilderbrand

When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He — Benita Eisler

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

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. — Max Winkler

Because this is a prison, and there's a prison warden pretending to read a book, just to make others think she's an intelligent woman. — Paulo Coelho

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or — John Calvin

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

I don't read all the newspapers. — Greg Rusedski

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon. — Boyd K. Packer

It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life. — Colleen Hoover

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns — Natasha Trethewey

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' — Zach Galifianakis

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell. — Juicy J

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. — Scott Westerfeld

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. — George W. Bush

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins. — Demetri Martin

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him. — Woody Hayes

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude

If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not - I'd read it first. — Will Schwalbe

Read my book and you shall know thee — Oscar Sanders

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. — Paul Harding

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King

It's crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner. — Kendall Jenner

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike ... it gives you a chance to read 'em. — Brad Pitt

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement — Robin Sharma

Wow." Percy handed back the book. "Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don't think Ares can read. — Rick Riordan

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me. — Pat Paulsen

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. — David Brooks

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose. — Chang-rae Lee

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

Read my book on Amazon Kindle Store- The Sergeant Who Raped A Minor. — Joyesh Mazumdar

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

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

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read. — Gail Carriger

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it. — Susan Ford

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. — Thomas B. Macaulay

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. — Lynda Barry

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. — Jack Paar

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? — Anne Rice

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'. — Billy Connolly

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. — Toni Morrison

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz

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

Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read. — Kartik Mehta

HERNIAS ARE US Wait ... sorry. I'm dyslexic. I squinted and decided it probably read: HERMES EXPRESS — Rick Riordan

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

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously. — Ansel Elgort

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

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

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'. — Bill Maher

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.' — Carine Roitfeld