Read Quotes

#1. No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?"
"That doesn't happen to me"
"Oh.

Catherine Clark

#2. If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Jim Rohn

#3. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

Charles Dickens

#5. The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!

R.L. Stine

#6. I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

Tim Sherwood

#7. He mentioned Beethoven. She had read in the library about that musician - his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with a double e. He was a German fellow like Mozart. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place - like she wanted to do.

Carson McCullers

#8. raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts.

Amanda Lovelace

#9. We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. In fact, the figure in The Last Supper is not a woman: only the most partisan reading can place Mary Magdalene in the scene. Viewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries would have read the painting quite differently.

Ross King

#11. Knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

Christopher Crawford

#12. Read read good...

Brian Regan

#13. If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that ... then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you ...

T.O.P

#14. he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished it. You have to see all things at once, as on Tralfamadore. I read it again. I caught a glimpse of some other dimension.

Hugh Howey

#15. Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read ... and read again!

Robert Evans

#16. He watched as her sister read it. Watched as her face crumpled, as her shoulders shook. Ashy. Caught her and held her, and they fell against each other.

Kelley Armstrong

#17. I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Rose Macaulay

#19. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

Chris Weitz

#20. My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Jo Brand

#21. Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer ... '
Well, isn't it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Epictetus

#22. It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

Alison Bechdel

#23. Four lines, and the world went quiet.
I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

Patrick Ness

#24. Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.

Hilary Mantel

#25. 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

#26. Properly, we should read for power.

Ezra Pound

#27. She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Patrick White

#28. I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.

Always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious.
Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious
but me.

Allen Ginsberg

#29. We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Lynne Truss

#30. As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Scott Lynch

#31. One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

Laurie Helgoe

#32. I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to 'hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.' I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.

Elizabeth Berg

#33. When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Kate Atkinson

#34. Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone Weil

#35. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.

Dai Sijie

#36. Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

Max Lucado

#37. I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Sarah Ruhl

#38. Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.

Ellen Hopkins

#39. I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

Tracey Emin

#40. When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

Robert Osborne

#41. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Howard Gossage

#42. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

Toby Jones

#43. I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.

W.P. Kinsella

#44. Read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information

Veronica Roth

#45. I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

Ben Cross

#46. I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Grant Morrison

#47. I like to read either in motion or in water ... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

Walter Mosley

#48. I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

Sonya Hartnett

#49. I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

Frank Lampard

#50. I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

Julia Kent

#51. Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!

Jennifer

#52. I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Jeff Kinney

#53. When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Don DeLillo

#54. I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#55. Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue that zings, and a cast of characters you'll cheer for to the very end. Thumbs up!

Devon Monk

#56. Write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.

Nicholas Sparks

#57. What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Charles Stross

#58. She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.

Alan Bennett

#59. I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

Harper Lee

#60. Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Anthony Trollope

#61. I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Tracy Kidder

#62. Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Margaret Mead

#63. I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

Will Chase

#64. I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

Faris Badwan

#65. I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? In

Barbara Kingsolver

#66. I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

William Ivey Long

#67. The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people.

James A. Newman

#68. If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
You might as well read me my last rights.

The Band Perry

#69. I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

#70. I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.

Stephen King

#71. My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

Alan Garner

#72. I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Richard Attenborough

#73. Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.

W. Somerset Maugham

#75. My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

Sasheer Zamata

#76. I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

Michael Owen

#77. And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

Paul Theroux

#78. I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

Josh Brolin

#79. Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public.

Jamie McKelvie

#80. Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

Joe McGinniss

#81. I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman

#82. Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

Zach Woods

#83. There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Anais Nin

#84. she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.

Peter Moore

#85. In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

Lucinda Franks

#86. The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Emma McLaughlin

#87. Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is.

Sarah Dessen

#88. 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

#89. Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Lucy Calkins

#90. I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror ...

Max Beesley

#91. I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

Trish Stratus

#92. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

Tuula Kallioniemi

#93. In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#94. Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Bernie Taupin

#95. My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

Damon Albarn

#96. Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Octavio Paz

#97. I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

Clive Barker

#98. Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the signs of our times as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world.

Namsoon Kang

#99. The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

Michael Craig-Martin

#100. I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.

Hope Solo