Read Quotes - page 9

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. (George Steiner)
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. View quote
William Wordsworth
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. View quote
Will Rogers
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
Henry Adams
I read poetry to save time. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. View quote
André Gide
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. View quote
William Lyon Phelps
Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language. View quote
Neil Strauss
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. View quote
Václav Klaus
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. View quote
Eric Hoffer
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once. View quote
John Green (author)
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. View quote
William Shakespeare
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
No two persons ever read the same book. View quote
Edmund Wilson
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. View quote
Toni Morrison
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. View quote
Toni Morrison
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. View quote
Mark Twain