Read Quotes
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He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better.
Beth Revis -
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
Franz Kafka
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
Pablo Picasso -
I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
Robert Frost -
I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending!
Jen Selinsky -
“Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.”
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. -
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Adam Zagajewski -
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.
Rick Santelli
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Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
Alfred Richard Orage -
What you read when you don't have to...
Oscar Wilde -
I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
Oscar Wilde -
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
Angela Lambert -
If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
Bocafloja -
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Thomas Hobbes -
I don’t want [my paintings’ subject matter] to be seen as a just a button. So they have to be read as not a button or a flower but something abstracted from which you can derive meaning.
Donald Sultan -
A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
Charles Nodier -
You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you.
Antonio Cromartie -
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
Nicholas Mosley -
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
Anna Leonowens
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Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.
Boman Irani -
This Life is More than Just a read through.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake