Read Quotes
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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
Abraham Lincoln
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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
Lord Byron
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She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter.
Anton Chekhov
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
Judith Flanders
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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.
Kate Morton
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A self-confessed fan of Harlan Coben, I find it difficult to not read a new Harlan Coben novel the week it comes out.
Ravi Subramanian
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“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.
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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?
Catherine Sanderson
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
Angela Lambert
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You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.
Jonathan Dee
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
Agnes Allen
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You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.
Michael Finkel
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I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.
Drew Carey
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I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!
Bruce Willis
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm not going to read Morgan McMichaels, life already has.
BeBe Zahara Benet
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My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.
Rey Mysterio
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To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
Rasmus Lerdorf
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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
Sigrid Nunez
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If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
S. Robson Walton
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We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?
Dustin Hoffman
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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.
Brendan Gallagher
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We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.
Joseph Monninger