Top 100 George Read Quotes

#1. I'm a fan of short horror fiction ... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety ... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

George Read Quotes #11633
#2. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

George Read Quotes #15561
#3. I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

George Payne Rainsford James

George Read Quotes #18381
#4. The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

Nick Clegg

George Read Quotes #36736
#5. The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

George Muller

George Read Quotes #41043
#6. I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.

George Lincoln Rockwell

George Read Quotes #42036
#7. Do you want to change lives? Do you really want to change the world? Then read. Read as much as you can, as widely as you can and don't forget to read what you like. Most of all read what you love. There is power in that.

Abigail George

George Read Quotes #44603
#8. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

George Read Quotes #61116
#9. If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Jim George

George Read Quotes #66067
#10. Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

George Gurdjieff

George Read Quotes #73724
#11. I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett

George Read Quotes #73960
#12. My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

George Read Quotes #84869
#13. A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #87448
#14. All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #108828
#15. I don't think you're entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #135857
#16. It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.

George Orwell

George Read Quotes #162776
#17. I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #173213
#18. Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

George Gilfillan

George Read Quotes #175287
#19. Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #183814
#20. When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

George Bernard Shaw

George Read Quotes #190785
#21. When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #194673
#22. When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

George Saunders

George Read Quotes #198707
#23. I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.

Boy George

George Read Quotes #203188
#24. The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

George MacDonald

George Read Quotes #204015
#25. I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #208493
#26. I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

George Crumb

George Read Quotes #210920
#27. Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

Will Rogers

George Read Quotes #211008
#28. I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

Aravind Adiga

George Read Quotes #220144
#29. He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

George Steiner

George Read Quotes #238362
#30. Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #258343
#31. I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.

George Saunders

George Read Quotes #273781
#32. I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #274760
#33. I can only breathe if I read,Perdue.

Nina George

George Read Quotes #278316
#34. When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

George Will

George Read Quotes #279213
#35. To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Jean Craighead George

George Read Quotes #288534
#36. There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

John Hancock

George Read Quotes #289087
#37. We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #290556
#38. Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

George Bernard Shaw

George Read Quotes #293814
#39. Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Trenton Lee Stewart

George Read Quotes #311103
#40. The bookseller read Catherine like a novel. She let him leaf through her and look through her story.

Nina George

George Read Quotes #312282
#41. I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .

George Packer

George Read Quotes #314162
#42. Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Christopher Hitchens

George Read Quotes #324899
#43. For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.

Edward Norton

George Read Quotes #327223
#44. More people write poetry than read it.

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #335437
#45. I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

Jim George

George Read Quotes #341814
#46. The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.

George Gissing

George Read Quotes #345394
#47. You know," Rolf said, "you read stories when you're little, and you think it would be so amazing to have adventures happen to you. Then you actually go on one, and find out that it's awful. Nothing but bad food, sleeping cold on the hard ground, and treachery.

Jessica Day George

George Read Quotes #355117
#48. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #362055
#49. President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

John Updike

George Read Quotes #374198
#50. I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.

Benjamin Clementine

George Read Quotes #398321
#51. I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

George Whitefield

George Read Quotes #399422
#52. I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

George Burns

George Read Quotes #402313
#53. It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

George H. W. Bush

George Read Quotes #402874
#54. The president [Barak Obama] had been asked some questions by George Stephanopoulos on a news show about whether it was a tax. And he had given an answer that you might read as him saying it wasn't a tax. I think what he said was, "It isn't a tax increase on all Americans."

Donald Verrilli Jr.

George Read Quotes #410197
#55. The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

George Herbert

George Read Quotes #424270
#56. Without having read to the end of the book, he knew that that must be Goldstein's final message. The future belonged to the proles.

George Orwell

George Read Quotes #449879
#57. I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home ... and start creating the world I have seen.

Jean Craighead George

George Read Quotes #454788
#58. You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #464526
#59. Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #478605
#60. I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'

Christopher Buckley

George Read Quotes #487114
#61. Just because you've read someone's Facebook status doesn't mean you're truly in touch with that person.

George Wallace

George Read Quotes #553325
#62. I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

George Saunders

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#63. I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

George Eliot

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#64. We've got it [Percy's Head Boy badge]," Fred whispered to Harry. "We're improving it."
The badge now read Bighead Boy.

J.K. Rowling

George Read Quotes #601087
#65. The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

George M. Whitesides

George Read Quotes #605962
#66. People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

George W. Bush

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#67. God's strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

Jim George

George Read Quotes #619523
#68. One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.

Sophia Amoruso

George Read Quotes #619715
#69. What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

George MacDonald

George Read Quotes #633867
#70. If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

George Carlin

George Read Quotes #636790
#71. My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

Gary Kemp

George Read Quotes #637238
#72. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Malcolm X

George Read Quotes #653664
#73. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

George Orwell

George Read Quotes #662382
#74. 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Libba Bray

George Read Quotes #668124
#75. Wow ... At least I can rest assured that you definitely can't read my mind," I remarked. "Clearly you know nothing about me ... because the surest way to keep me from doing something is to tell me I have no other choice.

M.A. George

George Read Quotes #669905
#76. Not everyone reads advertising; they read what they are interested in, and sometimes, that's advertising.

George Parker

George Read Quotes #677278
#77. There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

George Bernard Shaw

George Read Quotes #699537
#78. Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

George Read Quotes #701743
#79. I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

George W. Bush

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#80. I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

George Brandis

George Read Quotes #706752
#81. I'm most comfortable with my computer. Yes, I have an iPhone, but I've reached that point now where to read e-mails on my phone, I need my reading glasses. I'm most comfortable with the big-screen computer.

George Takei

George Read Quotes #712190
#82. I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.

George Burns

George Read Quotes #712953
#83. There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

George Eliot

George Read Quotes #731237
#84. A bastard had to learn to notice things, to read the truth that people hid behind their eyes.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #736873
#85. When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

George Saunders

George Read Quotes #749549
#86. Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

George F. Will

George Read Quotes #753525
#87. Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

George Foreman

George Read Quotes #763374
#88. The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #764499
#89. It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

George H. White

George Read Quotes #766937
#90. If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

Daniel Okrent

George Read Quotes #771715
#91. If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

George Eliot

George Read Quotes #773309
#92. Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

George W. Bush

George Read Quotes #775975
#93. If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #788982
#94. He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and reread very word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at the third chapter.

George Orwell

George Read Quotes #793166
#95. He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.

George Orwell

George Read Quotes #811245
#96. The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Christine Quinn

George Read Quotes #825306
#97. I'm determined to read no more books where the blond-haired women carry away all the happiness.

George Eliot

George Read Quotes #826445
#98. I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

George R R Martin

George Read Quotes #827863
#99. God's Word is written for you and to you, but it won't help unless you read it.

Elizabeth George

George Read Quotes #832397
#100. Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

George Pierce Baker

George Read Quotes #834108

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