Quotes about Reads

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. Votes: 3

Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things. Votes: 3

Man is what he reads. Votes: 1

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books. Votes: 1

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. Votes: 1

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness. Votes: 1

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. Votes: 1

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Votes: 1

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Votes: 1

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Votes: 1

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. Votes: 1

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Votes: 1

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. Votes: 1

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Votes: 1

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Votes: 1

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Votes: 1

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. Votes: 1

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. Votes: 1

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Votes: 1

I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. Votes: 1

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang. Votes: 1

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work. Votes: 1

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected. Votes: 1

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. Votes: 1

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Votes: 1

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. Votes: 1

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. Votes: 1

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. Votes: 1

It reads better than it lives Votes: 0

Who, except the poets, reads poetry? Votes: 0

One reads alone, even in another's presence. Votes: 0

I reads every chance I can gets. Votes: 0

One reads in order to ask questions Votes: 0

One reads not for information, but inspiration. Votes: 0

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you. Votes: 0

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. Votes: 0

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. Votes: 0

The man who never reads lives only one. Votes: 0

I read like the flame reads the wood. Votes: 0

Never trust a man who reads only one book. Votes: 0

Never trust a man who reads only one book. Votes: 0

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. Votes: 0

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. Votes: 0

The wise man reads both books and life itself. Votes: 0

Woe be to him that reads but one book. Votes: 0

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil Votes: 0

A man is known by the books he reads. Votes: 0

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen. Votes: 0

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. Votes: 0

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. Votes: 0

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Votes: 0

He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard. Votes: 0

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance. Votes: 0

My mum reads every script before I go for it. Votes: 0

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,' Votes: 0

Every poem is unique to each person who reads it. Votes: 0

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Votes: 0

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. Votes: 0

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. Votes: 0

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books. Votes: 0

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing. Votes: 0

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering Votes: 0

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you. Votes: 0

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. Votes: 0

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. Votes: 0

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud. Votes: 0

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. Votes: 0

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads Votes: 0

My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me. Votes: 0

I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread. Votes: 0

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. Votes: 0

Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book. Votes: 0

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". Votes: 0

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. Votes: 0

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails. Votes: 0

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with. Votes: 0

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read! Votes: 0

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books. Votes: 0

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay. Votes: 0

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. Votes: 0

Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important." Votes: 0

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. Votes: 0

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment. Votes: 0

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such. Votes: 0

Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you. Votes: 0

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. Votes: 0

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live Votes: 0

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. Votes: 0

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Votes: 0

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. Votes: 0

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. Votes: 0

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. Votes: 0

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books. Votes: 0

I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out. Votes: 0

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. Votes: 0

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. Votes: 0

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. Votes: 0

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears. Votes: 0

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it." Votes: 0

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality Votes: 0

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers. Votes: 0

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. Votes: 0

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. Votes: 0

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others. Votes: 0

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. Votes: 0

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. Votes: 0

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted Votes: 0

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. Votes: 0

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. Votes: 0

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. Votes: 0

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words. Votes: 0

I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud. Votes: 0

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that. Votes: 0

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. Votes: 0

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. Votes: 0

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. Votes: 0

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived. Votes: 0

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. Votes: 0

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. Votes: 0

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. Votes: 0

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. Votes: 0

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. Votes: 0

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. Votes: 0

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. Votes: 0

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing. Votes: 0

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it. Votes: 0

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading? Votes: 0

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. Votes: 0

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews. Votes: 0

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. Votes: 0

He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. Votes: 0

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. Votes: 0

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. Votes: 0

Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. Votes: 0

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Votes: 0

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. Votes: 0

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. Votes: 0

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. Votes: 0

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. Votes: 0

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. Votes: 0

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. Votes: 0

I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run. Votes: 0

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Votes: 0

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore. Votes: 0

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Votes: 0

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words Votes: 0

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. Votes: 0

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book. Votes: 0

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. Votes: 0

Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games. Votes: 0

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you. Votes: 0

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. Votes: 0

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt. Votes: 0

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. Votes: 0

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? Votes: 0

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. Votes: 0

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. Votes: 0

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. Votes: 0

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." Votes: 0

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. Votes: 0

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. Votes: 0

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. Votes: 0

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. Votes: 0

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do. Votes: 0

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. Votes: 0

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. Votes: 0

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. Votes: 0

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. Votes: 0

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested. Votes: 0

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? Votes: 0

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. Votes: 0

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. Votes: 0

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad. Votes: 0

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. Votes: 0

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds. Votes: 0

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.... Votes: 0

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence. Votes: 0

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you. Votes: 0

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy. Votes: 0

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. Votes: 0

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. Votes: 0

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history Votes: 0

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. Votes: 0

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. Votes: 0

How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked. "He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh." "Of course," I said. "Silly me. Votes: 0

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does. Votes: 0

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to. Votes: 0

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once"¦ Votes: 0

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. Votes: 0

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER" Votes: 0

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' Votes: 0

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER Votes: 0

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads. Votes: 0

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Votes: 0

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads. Votes: 0

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. Votes: 0

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. Votes: 0

Im not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. Thats that. Votes: 0

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Votes: 0

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender. Votes: 0

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. Votes: 0

Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome. Votes: 0

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will. Votes: 0

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard. Votes: 0

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film. Votes: 0

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films. Votes: 0

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others. Votes: 0

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body. Votes: 0

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'. Votes: 0

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? Votes: 0

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. Votes: 0

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly! Votes: 0

It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational. Votes: 0

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Votes: 0

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. Votes: 0

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall. Votes: 0

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!" Votes: 0

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. Votes: 0

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts. Votes: 0

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. Votes: 0

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. Votes: 0

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. Votes: 0

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying. Votes: 0

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most. Votes: 0

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. Votes: 0

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside? Votes: 0

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell. Votes: 0

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen. Votes: 0

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? Votes: 0

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening. Votes: 0

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight. Votes: 0

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing. Votes: 0

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment. Votes: 0

I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed. Votes: 0

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it. Votes: 0

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses. Votes: 0

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news. Votes: 0

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain. Votes: 0

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way. Votes: 0

The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action Votes: 0

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words. Votes: 0

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. Votes: 0

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be? Votes: 0

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. Votes: 0

However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications. Votes: 0

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist. Votes: 0

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted. Votes: 0

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate. Votes: 0

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus. Votes: 0

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this. Votes: 0

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. Votes: 0

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. Votes: 0

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with. Votes: 0

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new. Votes: 0

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them. Votes: 0

I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do. Votes: 0

In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction. Votes: 0

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Votes: 0

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books. Votes: 0

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about! Votes: 0

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. Votes: 0

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess. Votes: 0

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. Votes: 0

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter. Votes: 0

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success. Votes: 0

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads. Votes: 0

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. Votes: 0

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. Votes: 0

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. Votes: 0

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. Votes: 0

One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour. Votes: 0

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out. Votes: 0

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. Votes: 0

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real. Votes: 0

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do. Votes: 0

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry. Votes: 0

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke. Votes: 0

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon. Votes: 0

I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.' Votes: 0

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. Votes: 0

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. Votes: 0

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid. Votes: 0

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. Votes: 0

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' Votes: 0

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day. Votes: 0

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid. Votes: 0

First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of. Votes: 0

The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts. Votes: 0

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. Votes: 0

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Votes: 0

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear! Votes: 0

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary. Votes: 0

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels. Votes: 0

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells. Votes: 0

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood. Votes: 0

A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. Votes: 0

The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die. Votes: 0

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Votes: 0

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. Votes: 0

I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater. Votes: 0

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing. Votes: 0

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. Votes: 0

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. Votes: 0

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know. Votes: 0

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use. Votes: 0

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. Votes: 0

I don't think writers -in general- ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions. Votes: 0

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. Votes: 0

When you're comfortable, you're more confident - I really believe that. If you're walking around in a dress or a pair of shoes that are uncomfortable, it reads all over you. Votes: 0

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading. Votes: 0

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality. Votes: 0

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors. Votes: 0

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist. Votes: 0

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading. Votes: 0

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down. Votes: 0

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick. Votes: 0

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep. Votes: 0

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing... Votes: 0

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck. Votes: 0

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally. Votes: 0

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!. Votes: 0

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor. Votes: 0

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction. Votes: 0

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. Votes: 0

Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain. Votes: 0

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Votes: 0

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something. Votes: 0

I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard because I have four children. My 8 year old son reads lies about his father, when I'm his hero. Votes: 0

DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another. Votes: 0

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word. Votes: 0

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration. Votes: 0

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement. Votes: 0

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend. Votes: 0

A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them. Votes: 0

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. Votes: 0

See, some guys prefer assesSome prefer titsAnd I'm not saying that I don't like those bitsBut what's more importantWhat supersedesIs a girl a with passion, wit and dreamsSo I want a girl who reads." Votes: 0

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. Votes: 0

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays. Votes: 0

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own. Votes: 0

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. Votes: 0

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention. Votes: 0

The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination. Votes: 0

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid. Votes: 0

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. Votes: 0