Top 1200 Good Reads Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

The man who never reads lives only one.

One reads in order to ask questions

No one reads anything. They just look at images.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'

My dad reads everything about me.

A man is known by the books he reads.

My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

One reads not for information, but inspiration.

I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.

Man is what he reads.

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

I reads every chance I can gets.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

It reads better than it lives

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

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Just because it reads well doesn't mean it's always going to look good on screen. Then, a network or studio has to pick up the show, and then they have to order more episodes, and then people have to watch it. It could be the greatest thing on television that nobody ever watches.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

If you find a girl who reads, keeps her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real because, for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay.