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This assemblage is exceedingly good to look upon. I wish it were possible for me to give you what you are giving me this afternoon. What I say here amounts to but little; what I see here is exceedingly important. You workers in Ohio, enlisted in the greatest cause ever organized in the interest of your class, are making history today in the face of threatening opposition of all kinds-history that is going to be read with profound interest by coming generations. (Eugene V. Debs)
Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude. View quote
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. View quote
Mickey Spillane
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. View quote
David Byrne
It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path. View quote
Francis Collins
Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. View quote
Francis Collins
Reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. View quote
Francis Collins
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. View quote
Rex Stout
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad. View quote
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. View quote
Marlon Brando
The purity of the spectral element being the keystone of my.. ..searching for an optical formula on this basis ever, since I held a brush 1876 - 1884.. ..having read Charles Blanc in school and therefore knowing Chevreul's laws and Eugene Delacroix's precepts, having read the studies by the same Charles Blanc on the same painter [= Delacroix]. (Georges Seurat)
Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together really well. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen. View quote
Rita Rudner
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers - such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. View quote
Kevin Bacon
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. View quote
Kevin Bacon
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. View quote
Kevin Bacon
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. (Harold Bloom)
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. View quote
Harold Bloom
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. View quote
Harold Bloom
I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. View quote
Harold Bloom
Is there any death here in our camp? Yes, yes! Three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, the noblest band that ever trod the earth, died to make this camp a camp of glory and of liberty forever. But there are no dead issues here. There are no dead ideas here. Hang out our banner from under the blue sky this night, until it shall sweep the green turf under your feet. It hangs over our camp. Read away up under the stars the inscription we have written on it, lo these twenty-five years. View quote
James A. Garfield