Read Quotes
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Joanne Rowling
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
Benjamin Carson
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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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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Martin Heidegger
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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 only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.
Nancy Spain
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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 only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
Muhammad Ali
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People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.
Eva Marie Saint
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
Echo Bodine
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You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.
Bobby V
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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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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
Cressida Cowell
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
Sean Penn
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
James Hubert Blake
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.
Andrew X. Pham
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You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
Ewan McGregor
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If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
Catherine the Great
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In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin.
Mikhail Lermontov