Read Quotes

• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Earth
  • Read
  • Scripture

• I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

  

  Alex D. Linz
  • Read
  • Bike
  • Pictures

• I got the script, read the script, really liked it.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Read
  • Script
  • Like It

• But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: 'Yo, Shakespeare's dope.'

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Know
  • Read
  • High School

• I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Try
  • Haters

• Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Write
  • Means

• I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Read
  • Novels
  • RAND

• I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Involved
  • Beats
  • Science fiction

• Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

  

  Alison Louise Kennedy
  • Remember
  • Read
  • Good Things

• I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Things

• Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Course

• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Write
  • Books
  • Advertising

• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Friends
  • Read
  • Forgive

• We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

  

  George Brandis
  • Society
  • Read
  • Wiser

• I was very excited when I saw it and I went through it with my girlfriend and kid and we read the deals and was quite amazed by it.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Kid
  • Girlfriend
  • Deals

• Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Man
  • Speak

• If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Read
  • Best Way
  • Scientology

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Emergency
  • Soap Operas

• Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • School
  • Learn
  • Read

• Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Write
  • Read
  • Listen

• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • Inspiration
  • Darkness
  • Despair

• I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Cycles

• You can't hear me? Read my lips!

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Read
  • Lips
  • My

• I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Position
  • Frozen
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

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