Top 100 Read Everything Quotes

#1. Okay, so you can manipulate the way you look, and you can read minds, and you can see the future?" I really hoped she couldn't see everything. Like private moments and, well, basically that exactly.

Angela McPherson

#2. Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Mika.

#3. 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

#4. Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons.

Shallu Jindal

#5. Hey, O Holy One, if the only people you want to read your book are the ones who already agree with everything in it, what was your point in the first place? Isn't the goal to reach non-believers?

Antony John

#6. The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.

Charles Simic

#7. I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

Malcolm Goodwin

#8. I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

Frank Oz

#9. I stopped avoiding the articles and the scientific studies and read everything I could find. I also stopped outsourcing the problem to the environmentalists, stopped telling myself this was somebody else's issue, somebody else's job.

Naomi Klein

#10. My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

Mitch Pileggi

#11. I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. It changed my life," the first-grader said of the iPad. "I'm reading everything on the street." To prove his point, he read all the words on a pizza box he cradled on his lap.

Anonymous

#13. Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

Brian Tracy

#14. Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

Zadie Smith

#15. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

Matthew Donnelly

#17. Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again.

Annie Dillard

#18. I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.

Robert Kazinsky

#19. I read without a dictionary, understood some of each sentence, did not understand quite a bit of it, and was willing to read on ahead without understanding everything I had read.

John Freeman

#20. One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

Steven Wright

#21. It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.

Ann Mullen

#22. To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Franz Grillparzer

#24. She wanted to read and talk and laugh and watch television and listen to the radio. She wanted to watch the world around her go by, and make up stories in her head about everything she saw...Like a princess in a carriage, surveying her kingdom, preferably one with a magical forest.

Jami Attenberg

#25. Yes, my child, you must read. You must read everything that comes your way. It doesn't matter what you read at first, later you'll learn discrimination. Schools are no good, Matty, you learn nothing at school. If you want to be anything, you must educate yourself.

Doris Lessing

#26. Read, read, read. Read everything
trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

William Faulkner

#27. That is why we need to come with you," Logan replied as if he read my mind. "You don't have to do everything alone, Rose." He placed his hand on top of mine which was resting on the table.

A few volts of electricity ran up my spine.

Claudia Caren

#28. Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Erik Spiekermann

#29. I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Jonathan Carroll

#30. [...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic

Ben Oliveira

#31. It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife watches a show with subtitles, she has a skill to be able to watch and read. Whereas I'm more of a read or watch.

Greg Poehler

#32. I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

Ned Rorem

#33. I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

James Blunt

#34. I believe there are two things that exist in the world that everyone should read because they teach you pretty much everything you need to know about life: the Bible and Harry Potter.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#35. Read everything and be kind.

Penn Jillette

#36. Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

David Bowie

#37. When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.

Bertrand Russell

#38. Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Jo Nesbo

#39. 2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.

Katherine Jenkins

#40. Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already

Margaret Sartor

#41. I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

Ira Glass

#42. Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Joss Whedon

#43. When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#44. I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

Mark E. Smith

#45. I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

Daniel Foxx

#46. I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Caroline Thompson

#47. One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

Matt Groening

#48. Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Ewan McGregor

#49. It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life.

Colleen Hoover

#50. Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines.

Karen Thompson Walker

#51. The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

Joshua Leonard

#52. People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery.

Deyth Banger

#53. Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.

Alice McDermott

#54. Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Janette Rallison

#55. Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything changed. And isn't that what every book is about? No, seriously, isn't it? I don't read books.

David Iserson

#56. She read everything.

Virginia Woolf

#57. I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

Adeline Yen Mah

#58. But we can't be everything we read.

S.E. Hinton

#59. That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.

Frank McCourt

#60. Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Scott Westerfeld

#61. I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#62. Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.

Peter Stamm

#63. I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Warren Buffett

#64. Suddenly, everything I'd ever read made sense. All of the cliches about electricity and drowning and falling and other sinister metaphors for a kiss all swept over me. It was nuclear fusion. It was the door to Narnia.

Lily Anderson

#65. I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

Amor Towles

#66. Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!

Milton William Cooper

#67. Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we constantly surround ourselves with... we become. Reevaluate your influences your very life depends on it." ~Jason Versey

Jason Versey

#68. We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

Marc Guggenheim

#69. If you want to know about Africa, read our literature
and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.

Chris Abani

#70. The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#71. Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Jeffrey Brown

#72. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Terry Pratchett

#73. When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.

Akhil Sharma

#74. I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

Joseph Epstein

#75. I read someplace that wanting to know everything about a person is wanting to possess them." "I believe that is probably true," Susan said.

Robert B. Parker

#76. We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else.

Chang-rae Lee

#77. I read everything and anything. I love books.

Gail Porter

#78. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.

Milan Kundera

#79. Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#80. If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Shelby Foote

#81. Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Ann Packer

#82. I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

Michel Gondry

#83. I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Jena Malone

#84. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#85. Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William Wordsworth

#86. I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

Hume Cronyn

#87. Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

Meredith Brooks

#88. Don't just teach your children to read ...
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.

George Carlin

#89. I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

Blake Bailey

#90. Much later, she would go back and read the entry, and think to herself that memories were that way, too. When you wanted to forget, everything would return in raw, brutal focus. When you wanted to remember, the details would slip away like a dream at dawn.

Emily Giffin

#91. All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Walter Mosley

#92. I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.

Tracy Pollan

#93. Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.

Larissa Ione

#94. When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

Vincent Cassel

#95. I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

Naomie Harris

#96. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

Jack Vance

#97. I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'
spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke

#98. Don't BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don't let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities!

Lily Amis

#99. Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer
Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.

Taylor Negron

#100. But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

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