Read Quotes
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Seneca the Younger
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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.
Celina Jade
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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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I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
Eve Ensler
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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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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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I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.
Nancy Spain
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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
Wendy C. Ortiz
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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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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
Benjamin Carson
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
Blaise Pascal
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron
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Please don't read the preface for the teacher.
Edmund Landau
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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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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal
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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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And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
George W Truett
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Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Ngaio Marsh
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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
Barbara Seranella
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
Sharon Creech
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
Mickey Kaus
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
Sean Penn