Read Quotes - page 7

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. (Harper Lee)
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. View quote
Newt Gingrich
If you would be a reader, read if a writer, write. View quote
Epictetus
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. View quote
Henry Miller
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. View quote
Philip Pullman
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. View quote
Dylan Thomas
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. View quote
Edward Said
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. (Joseph Addison)
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. View quote
Gene Simmons
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' View quote
Joseph Heller
At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. View quote
Carrie Underwood
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. View quote
Hank Aaron
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. View quote
Alice Walker
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. View quote
Angela Carter
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. View quote
Pete Seeger
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. (Julian Barnes)
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. View quote
Dr. Seuss
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. View quote
Oscar Wilde