Read Quotes
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Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!
Alfonso X of Castile
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I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.
Bei Dao
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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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So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.
Shailene Woodley
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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
Alejandro Zambra
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I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.
Noah Wyle
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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
Cate Blanchett
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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
Robert Frost
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People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?
Eugene Ionesco
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I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.
Andrea Suarez Paz
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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
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I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.
Julia Davis
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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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Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
David Markson
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
Pablo Picasso
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I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
Vittoria Ceretti
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
Ellen Raskin
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I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
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Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Cecil Rhodes
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Nobody wants to read happy stories.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.
Benjamin Alire Saenz