Top 1200 Well-Read Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinner table. I read late into the night in my room. This unhindered foraging and feasting on books - away from controlling, condemning eyes - empowered me to identify and resist misogyny, xenophobia, shadism, and other forms of injustice.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

When I started 'The Soup' back in 2004, I was so anxious because I can't really read, and I had to read teleprompter.

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

The worst is when you read things on the Internet blogs, because people don't hold back. Sometimes you read wonderful things, but sometimes it's really awful stuff. Like on the Fashion Spot, for example, people always comment on you. They forget that we might read that stuff.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

I have learned that my assignment is to write books for people who do not like to read books. I really try to connect with people who are not given to spending a lot of time with an open book. Pay day to me is when somebody comes up to me and says, "I never read books but I read yours." I have a heart for that person.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

I try not to let what I read in the paper get to me. But I still read things and I think 'That didn't happen.'

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.