Read Quotes - page 2

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. (Mark Twain)
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. View quote
Elias Canetti
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. View quote
François Mauriac
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. View quote
William M. Tweed
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. View quote
Alberto Moravia
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. View quote
Ezra Pound
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. (Samuel Johnson)
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. View quote
Leo Burnett
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. View quote
Francis Bacon
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. View quote
William Faulkner
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. (Oprah Winfrey)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I want to read a novel, I write one. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli