Top 1200 Well-Read Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!

I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly."

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

I read constantly, but I don't read non-religious stuff. I don't have the time.

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!

You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

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

Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.