Top 100 Read The Quotes
#1. I've never played a manipulative, drug-smuggling lesbian before. For me, it's pushing me in an area that's great. There are days when I'd read the script and I'd be like, "Oh, God, I can't believe I have to do that."
Laura Prepon
#2. I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.
Sherry Sontag
#3. The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
Peter Bart
#4. Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.
Robin S. Sharma
#5. Is not at all uncommon for women in my country to be illiterate, but to see my mother, a proud and intelligent woman, struggle to read the prices in the bazaar was an unspoken sadness for both of us, I think.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
Anna Held
#7. I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I've read the Bible, nor because I've preached to a lot of people. I'm going to heaven because of what Christ did.
Billy Graham
#8. When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
Eddie Huang
#9. The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow. The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice, when speaking your mind, or making your choice.
Primedia
#10. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.
Deyth Banger
#13. I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
P.J. Harvey
#14. Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.
Francis Chan
#15. No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
Michael J. Fox
#16. Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.
Christina Ricci
#17. I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
Jean Liedloff
#18. That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
Philip Yancey
#19. You read the most obscure, hyperspecific academic articles on the planet to the point where you develop actual burning ire over scholars you've never met. ("Can you believe that the interpretation of Patel et al. contradicts that of Chen et al.? Those sons of bitches!")
Adam Ruben
#20. I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I
know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.
Betty Smith
#21. Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#22. There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar
Jonathan Lethem
#23. I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Glenn Frey
#24. Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.
John Vaillant
#26. You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.
Jeff VanderMeer
#27. You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.
Greg Palast
#28. Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.
Robert Towne
#29. My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.
Tom Paulin
#30. Had read the laws, but not learnt how to practise law.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Many good people read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions, corrections, encouragement, and information.
Neil Gaiman
#32. The fun comes in telling them yourself - something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,
Neil Gaiman
#33. If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!
Billy Graham
#34. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
C.S. Lewis
#35. I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.
Susan Ford
#36. Babies used to make me nervous, but these squirmy things are awesome once you've read the manual.
David Z. Hirsch
#37. Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
Zadie Smith
#38. I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
Tom Perrotta
#39. If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?
Natasha Friend
#40. Dariusz felt something like admiration for the Red Knight. They clearly read the same books.
Miles Cameron
#41. Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.
Jim Cymbala
#42. Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.
Darren L Johnson
#43. I don't really read the reviews - but I remember one I read a long time ago that said I had a face like a potato.
Bill Murray
#44. I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.
Guy Pearce
#45. Read the best books first, otherwise you'll find you do not have time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
#46. Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'
Charles Dickens
#48. Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.
Ikkyu
#49. If Christians read the Holy Bible, they know the Lord Jesus Christ.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.
Shaun Tan
#51. If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.
Harold Bloom
#52. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.
Jasper Fforde
#53. The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
#54. Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.
Ludacris
#55. Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.
Steve Carell
#56. Ignoring me, he read the title of the book I kept firmly between our gazes. "Lover awakened. " He nestled his head on my shoulder. "Weren't you reading this book last month? "
"No."
He raised a brow.
"Yes. I can't stop. I've read it twenty-seven times in a row.
Darynda Jones
#57. One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.
David A. Noebel
#58. In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.
Shirley Jackson
#59. I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.
Dick Dale
#60. The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Caitlyn Jenner
#61. I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.
Evan Goldberg
#62. Esperanza handed him a slip of paper. "Here's the office number for Susan Lex, Dennis's older sister." Myron read the number like it was in code and might mean something. "I had another thought.
Harlan Coben
#63. I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
Ezra Cornell
#64. When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
Annie Dillard
#65. O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#68. Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
R.C. Sproul
#69. The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.
Jared C. Wilson
#70. Now he knew there was so much more to her story and damn if he didn't want to read the whole book.
Cassandra Samuels
#71. I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
Bruce Greenwood
#72. True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Ashton Kutcher
#73. Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
Cory Doctorow
#74. If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.
Simon Toyne
#75. I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#76. Time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes
Richard Yates
#77. There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.
Marc Webb
#78. I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.
Jimmy Fallon
#79. You cannot write if you do not read,' the blind man said. 'You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not' - he grabbed for the boy's hand - 'listen.
Mitch Albom
#80. I'm fine, Ari. Read the book."
"If you're sure?"
He shook his head, lowering his gaze again. "Ari, guys aren't like girls. When we say we're fine we actually mean it.
Samantha Young
#81. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos
Anita Paddock
#82. It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
Josh Gad
#83. I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I've always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It's my best explanation for our planet.
Simon Rich
#84. Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.
Samuel L. Jackson
#85. It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.
Ji-li Jiang
#86. I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that they are comparing it to, which would perhaps provide deeper sustenance than many contemporary novels.
Marilynne Robinson
#87. Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.
Angela Lansbury
#88. I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.
Frederick Buechner
#89. Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly
Michelle Obama
#90. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Stephen King
#91. I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
Edmund Wilson
#92. When all else fails, read the instructions.
Agnes Allen
#93. I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.
Russell Crowe
#94. Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
Elizabeth Lesser
#95. We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.
Jean-Andre De Luc
#96. You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke
#97. Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.
Robin Jones Gunn
#98. I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.
Audrey Tautou
#100. Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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