Read Quotes - page 5

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. (Bill Gates)
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. View quote
Meg White
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. View quote
Victor Hugo
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books. View quote
Robertson Davies
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. View quote
Lord Byron
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Live always in the best company when you read. View quote
Sydney Smith
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. View quote
Mark Twain
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. View quote
Mark Twain
I read part of it all the way through. (Samuel Goldwyn)
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. View quote
Mike Tyson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. View quote
Saul Bellow
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well. View quote
Kurt Cobain
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. View quote
Voltaire
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. View quote
John Locke
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." (Lyndon B. Johnson)
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. View quote
Randall Jarrell
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. View quote
Mark Strand
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. View quote
William Goldman