Read Quotes
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
Mickey Kaus -
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
Edwin Boring
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
Echo Bodine -
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
Anthony Trollope -
I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
Susan Brooks -
Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
Esperanza Spalding -
The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
Judith Flanders
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I'm not well read.
Cate Blanchett -
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
George Bernard Shaw -
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
Ray Liotta -
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Nina Bawden -
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.
William Zinsser -
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Bonnie Friedman
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
Cesare Pavese -
I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau -
I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
Neil Patrick Harris -
Since it is visual art, you know, you’re drawing from everything. But I tend to draw from what I read not from a visual thing. Most of my stuff comes from historical things that I read that are kind of obscure and that people don’t know much about, like the formation of the Christian church, stuff like that.
Barron Claiborne -
We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
Phyllis Theroux -
While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
Gaylene Preston -
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound -
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines -
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
Sharon Creech