Read Quotes - page 8

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. (Don DeLillo)
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. View quote
Jerry Garcia
In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. View quote
Don Marquis
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. View quote
R. L. Stine
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. View quote
George Burns
The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going. (E. B. White)
All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not. View quote
E. B. White
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. View quote
Charles Lamb
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. View quote
William Faulkner
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. View quote
John Steinbeck
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. View quote
Stephen King
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. View quote
William Blake
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. (Gustave Flaubert)
Read in order to live. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
There are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . . View quote
H. L. Mencken
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. View quote
Judy Blume
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. View quote
Clarence Darrow