Top 100 How To Read Quotes
#1. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.
Harold Bloom
#2. What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have not begun to read, you have not learned how to read.
John Macy
#4. My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.
Leigh Newman
#5. If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.
John Crowley
#6. When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.
Craig T. Nelson
#7. I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
Daddy Yankee
#8. They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#9. In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
Martin Buber
#10. If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Ray Bradbury
#11. Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
Blake Judd
#12. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.
T.K. Naliaka
#13. So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
George Cukor
#14. She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.
Molly Ringwald
#15. You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.
Benjamin Percy
#16. To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
Eva Green
#17. My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.
Jill Lepore
#19. In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.
Raymond Pettibon
#20. When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.
Jodie Foster
#21. It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
Henry R. Luce
#22. It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
Robert B. Parker
#23. Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
Holmes Rolston III
#24. I must confess to generally hating sections entitled "how to read this book" and so
on. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please!
Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.
Paul Taylor
#25. A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#26. Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn't know how to read the signs.
Jan Hellriegel
#27. After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.
Justin Theroux
#28. I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read the book written in his eyes.
Tahereh Mafi
#29. Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.
John McPhee
#30. i'm going to kidnap your daughter someday and i won't let your nephew learn how to read because of how much i love you and scream at your grave and i'll rent your room out to some guy from London
Mallory Ortberg
#31. It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
Theodore Roosevelt
#32. I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.
Katherine Paterson
#33. I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W.P. Kinsella
#34. I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
Linda Ronstadt
#35. Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.
Catherine Hardwicke
#36. To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
Pearl S. Buck
#37. Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.
Christine Feehan
#38. We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs?
Paul Gitwaza
#39. When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
Jon Scieszka
#40. Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.
Theodora Goss
#41. I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions ... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#42. Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
Mike Ferguson
#43. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Frederick Douglass
#44. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.
Jack Dorsey
#45. One of the most useful and important ways to be able to use your psychic gifts is to learn how to read what's happening in your very own body.
Catherine Carrigan
#46. I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
Sonia Sotomayor
#47. It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
Yanni
#48. Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#49. You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.
Dick Miller
#50. My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#51. Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors.
Suzanne Steele
#52. I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.
Courteney Cox
#53. It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
Mike Tyson
#54. How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
Joseph Campbell
#55. The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas - and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often.
Fareed Zakaria
#57. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.
Sam Wineburg
#58. For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.
Rebecca Solnit
#59. I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.
Gustavo Santaolalla
#60. I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#61. I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
Patricia Goldbach
#63. The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world ...
Henry Giroux
#64. I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
Ira Glass
#65. When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'
Mark Wahlberg
#66. The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
#67. Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.
Michelle Rhee
#68. Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore
#69. My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
Vik Muniz
#70. I am simply an average, everyday Christian guy who has been radically changed by the good news about God's presence in His world. This has primarily happened as I have learned how to read the Bible for what it says, in the way it says it.
Christopher M. Morgan
#71. When you've been lied to your whole life by people, especially men, you learn how to read when people are telling the truth and when they're not.
Kelly Elliott
#72. The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Red Cloud
#73. Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.
Ikkyu
#74. There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#75. Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#76. She's too hot, even for you. And since she's got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she's smart enough to know to avoid guys like you.
Nicole Williams
#77. The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard Ferguson
#78. The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin
#79. Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.
Henry Ford
#80. Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.
Matthea Harvey
#81. I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
Nicole Polizzi
#82. I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.
Signe Baumane
#83. No, Fulton was colored. She understands this luminous truth. Natchez did not lie about that: she has seen it in the man's books, made plain by her new literacy. In the last few days she has learned how to read, like a slave does, one forbidden word at a time.
Colson Whitehead
#84. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
Virginia Woolf
#85. Some day, I hope that you will find me hidden amidst my worlds, letters, poems and writings, discover me amidst my characters, uncover what i hid in plain sight. But I doubt you will. You have never known how to read between the lines.
Srividya Srinivasan
#86. A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy)
Patricia Briggs
#88. You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Ernie Els
#89. Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Brandon Sanderson
#90. And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.
Tahereh Mafi
#91. The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.
Edward Hirsch
#92. As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.
Gregory Benford
#93. Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.
Paul Auster
#94. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.
Norman Lock
#95. The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.
Mike Aquilina
#96. I was born with a reading list that I will never finish.
The person who deserves that most pity is a lonely one on a rainy day that does not know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin
Maude Casey
#97. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
Ian Caldwell
#98. A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.
Rebecca Mead
#99. For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
Pablo Picasso
#100. It took me a second to figure out how to read Wade's neat handwriting backward, but I eventually read, I had sex in a death barn, and all I got was this temporary tattoo.
Molly Harper
