Quotes About Reads

#1. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. The page on which I wrote is the second page in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants, in the old edition of the triple combination. On the bottom of the page, in capital letters, is written the word REPENTANCE. And then an arrow leads to a notation that reads: Greek word. To have a new mind.

Henry B. Eyring

#3. With a lightning quick glance at me first, he reads one bumper sticker: Member: BBB. Boys in Books are Better?

Anne Eliot

#4. I like the bumper sticker that reads, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven." But that does not give us license to live below God's standard.

Billy Graham

#5. [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Mark Twain

#6. The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

Silouan The Athonite

#7. Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Alexandra David-Neel

#8. A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. According to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets'
owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.

Stanislaw Lem

#10. As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

Benjamin Bayani

#11. The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

John O'Donohue

#12. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Chris Moneymaker

#14. Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Nicholas Meyer

#15. I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.

Jim Goldberg

#16. Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.

Jay Leno

#17. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!

D.L. Moody

#18. What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?"
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.

Jill Barnett

#19. I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

Hilarie Burton

#20. When you're comfortable, you're more confident - I really believe that. If you're walking around in a dress or a pair of shoes that are uncomfortable, it reads all over you.

Erin Wasson

#21. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#22. I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.

Liana Liberato

#23. The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts.

Chris Matakas

#24. The man who never reads lives only once.

George R R Martin

#25. If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Larisa Oleynik

#26. Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

Megan Hilty

#27. See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Rebecca Wells

#28. There are so many things to know and learn. She reads ... and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#29. A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

James A. Owen

#30. When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication
something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke.

Unica Zurn

#31. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

John Irving

#33. Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Kabir

#34. I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

Donnie Wahlberg

#35. I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud.

Charlize Theron

#36. America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ben Shapiro

#37. Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Joan Aiken

#38. I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Nancy Farmer

#39. The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them.

Gregory The Great

#40. Most blogs have very low readership - perhaps only the blogger's mother or best friend reads them - but even writing for one person, compared to writing for nobody, seems to be enough to compel millions of people to blog.

Dan Ariely

#41. when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here, the books I have written will still be here, and with them like those before me, I will live forever as long as one person reads one page of my world.

Shawn Hilton

#42. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#43. I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard because I have four children. My 8 year old son reads lies about his father, when I'm his hero.

Chris Stokes

#44. A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Robert Breault

#45. One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

Marcel Proust

#46. I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, 'Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won't get you.' I love wearing that t-shirt.

Suzie Ivy

#47. Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys ... show them these words when they can't remember me.

Kristin Hannah

#48. The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Gunter Grass

#49. How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.

Bayode Ojo

#50. the girl somewhere,
who reads you,
whose skin has memorized your life.
Nothing stops her fingers;
they swim with you at night.

Larissa Szporluk

#51. I already have Tangled Webs and Blood throughout the night out. look out for Night of the Beast all great reads.

Bobby Rodgers

#52. Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual - in his phrase, "someone who reads books" - the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.

Steven Pressfield

#53. He who reads, shall find answers He seeks.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel ... Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.

Orhan Pamuk

#55. The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Allan Sherman

#56. It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written)
for me, it's never quick.

Sarah Dessen

#57. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#58. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Kerry Cohen

#59. A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

Mary Oliver

#60. Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#61. In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

Dave Gibbons

#62. He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Roland Barthes

#63. As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads.

John Trapp

#64. The calligraphy reads, "Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha." Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#65. The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

Woodrow Wilson

#66. Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

John Ashbery

#67. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

Teju Cole

#68. In the immortal words of Loshain P'stane, 'If anyone reads this without permission, he will be most certainly and brutally slain. Or at the very least I'll chop off a finger or two. Or three.

Andrew Peterson

#69. I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Eva Mendes

#70. I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

Sandra Cisneros

#71. One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Harold Bloom

#72. Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

Dennis Prager

#73. The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?"
"Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.

Jonathan Maberry

#74. If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

#75. The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book.

Susan Sontag

#76. Nobody ever reads the same book twice.

Robertson Davies

#77. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?

G.K. Chesterton

#78. A nation who reads and thinks much will reach the stars long before other nations!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#79. A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Mark The Evangelist

#80. Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#81. To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams

This is for you

Meagan Spooner

#82. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

#83. He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

John Sayles

#84. You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

Clint Eastwood

#85. You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?

Cynthia Heimel

#86. If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#87. The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short ... Give them enough to take action

Claude C. Hopkins

#88. There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.

Greg Daniels

#89. Synergy between thoughts and feelings
reads the universe like an opened book.

Toba Beta

#90. On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.

Joe Swanberg

#91. The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

Mary Karr

#92. You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

John Darnielle

#93. Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.

Tina Brown

#94. Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

George Murray

#95. She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Thorne Smith

#96. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R R Martin

#97. If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

Michael J. Fox

#98. Has it ever happened that a murderer just before committing his crime gets a message stating, 'Life is about loving', and stops in his tracks, or a banker reads 'No greater sin than cheating', and quits his job? So,

Twinkle Khanna

#99. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#100. I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

Karl Barth