Peruse Quotes

#1. Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#2. We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#4. I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

Lisa Ling

#5. Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Edward Coke

#6. Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.

Loren Eiseley

#7. Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

Clifford Stoll

#8. A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

Kevin Nealon

#9. Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Jerome Strong

#10. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

David Platt

#13. With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

John Wolcot

#14. Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Patrick Kavanagh

#15. My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Michael Jackson

#16. When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Richard Donner

#17. I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Enya

#18. Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness.

Amy Tan

#19. Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

Eric Ries

#20. Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.

Dennis E. Adonis

#21. The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke