Top 100 Quotes About Reads
#1. Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely:
'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
Edith Wharton
#2. One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
Garrison Keillor
#3. I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed.
Bauvard
#4. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian Helgeland
#6. What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.
Annie Dillard
#7. WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch.
Victoria Schwab
#8. A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly.
B.J. Ward
#9. Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
Chris Van Allsburg
#10. I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.
Christopher Owens
#11. The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#12. No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
Sarah Vowell
#13. RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the northwest corner of the room, wearing aviator sunglasses and her trusted snow hat that reads, 'No Coffee, No Workee," a motto in life that she will continue to stand by in the afterlife.
Amy Schumer
#14. The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?
Rivka Galchen
#15. What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
#16. It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.
Charles Colson
#17. Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.
Richard Flanagan
#18. I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
Northrop Frye
#19. social infancy, regarded the legends of their faith as a child reads a fairy tale, credulous of all that is supernatural in the agency--unconscious of all that may be philosophical in the moral. It is true, indeed, that dim
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#20. To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.
Jessica Sorensen
#22. More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
Craig Brown
#23. But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
Robert Downey Jr.
#24. How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: 'This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Josemaria Escriva
#25. The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship?
Jonah Books
#26. Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
Jim Lee
#27. My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.'
Donald Trump
#28. First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.
Olawale Robyns
#29. It's okay to write something offensive now and then. It lets you know if anyone actually reads your posts.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#30. He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
Ambrose
#31. Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke
#32. A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.
George R R Martin
#33. A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J.M. Coetzee
#36. Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Robert Kiyosaki
#37. Shakespeare. No one reads Shakespeare in a bar unless it's a ploy to pick up girls. All I'm saying is you might have better luck up front.
Cora Carmack
#40. Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.
Andy Weir
#41. When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.'12
Eugene H. Peterson
#42. I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.
John Wyndham
#43. It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
Louis Sachar
#44. He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.
Jennifer Lanthier
#45. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
Mark Twain
#46. There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
Jim Rohn
#47. I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.
Frank Luntz
#48. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
Hayim Nahman Bialik
#50. The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ...
Wallace Stevens
#51. A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
Kirsten Dunst
#52. I don't think writers -in general- ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.
Augusten Burroughs
#54. I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.
Po Bronson
#55. I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
Bill Hader
#56. The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
William Penn
#57. If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
#58. Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.
William H Gass
#59. PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#60. She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.
Anonymous
#61. When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
#62. Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.
Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.
Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.
Toba Beta
#63. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#64. A book can change the world ... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.
Jackie French
#65. A man is happiest with a girl who reads books." -
Zan Perrion
#66. - Not like God reads minds or anything.
- He better not, or we're all fucked forever.
Robert Ferrigno
#67. One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
Ben Jonson
#68. There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
Clifton Fadiman
#69. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.
Siri Hustvedt
#70. Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
#71. Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, 'What's wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
Trenton Lee Stewart
#72. The opening words of the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy pamphlet distributed at the event, reads, "When researchers at the Advanced Research Projects Agency first invented the precursor to the Internet in 1969 ... ." The implicit message in all of this: We helped you. Now, it's payback time.
Anonymous
#73. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#74. There is a certain 'beauty' in illness - one is alone - one reads - one thinks - one sees only the people one like seeing. (27 (?)/5/1928) - From a Letter to Duncan Grant)
Virginia Woolf
#75. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.
James MacDonald
#76. Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
Gore Vidal
#77. It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
David Sanborn
#78. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..
Albert Einstein
#79. And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.
David Gest
#80. A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
Laura Vazquez
#81. The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.
Gary Paulsen
#82. So much for a "Happy Halloween!" I thought sarcastically. I should wear a huge sign around my neck from now onwards that reads: 'Stay clear of me if you want your party to survive the night'!
Adele Rose
#83. If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?
Matt Drabble
#84. What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself
Lewis Mumford
#85. The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.
Thomas Paine
#86. I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!
Barnabas
#87. Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
Lemony Snicket
#88. What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a secondhand shop: Pressing Done Here. If a person were to bring his clothes to be pressed, he would be duped, for the sign is merely for sale.
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
Jann Wenner
#90. What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
Jeanette Winterson
#91. Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
Jen Lancaster
#92. Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#93. However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
Matthew Arnold
#94. Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
Kim Addonizio
#95. No one who reads can ever be bored.
Ann Hood
#96. No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
A. Ray Olpin
#97. I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it. They may think they get it, but they don't. This is the sign you've been looking for. You were meant to read these words.
Iain S. Thomas
#99. I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
Malin Akerman
#100. In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.
Dean Koontz
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