Read Quotes
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If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?
Natasha Friend
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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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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn Monroe
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Today, its possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.
Amelia Gray
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I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
Alexander Zverev
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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
William Sleator
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Huston Smith
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Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.
Sarah Dessen
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For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.
Brad Leithauser
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I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
Nicholas G. Carr
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I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.
Harvey Keitel
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We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
Ben Aaronovitch
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
George Bernard Shaw
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I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.
Nancy Spain
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
Benjamin Carson
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I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.
Rajeev Suri
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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I don’t read the news. I make the news.
Denrele Edun
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Joanne Rowling
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You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
Ray Lewis