Read Quotes
-
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
-
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
-
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
-
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
-
Anything you read about him, multiply it by two.
-
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.
-
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
-
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.
-
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
-
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
-
I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
-
She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter.
-
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
-
Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.
-
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.
-
I'm not going to read Morgan McMichaels, life already has.
-
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
-
My parents had the hardest time getting me to read. But I picked up the Muhammad Ali book and it was pretty cool. He was a guy that lived a pretty exciting life and, with the ups and downs and things he dealt with, I think it’s a pretty special story.
-
The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
-
I have got important quotes in my life written on my wall in my studio in big handwriting three inches tall which I sometimes look up and read.
-
By writing this, knowing that there was a chance he'd read it, i was up to my old tricks. Was I not sending an open letter hoping for some kind of response, in return?
