Read Quotes · Page 81

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

— Gail Devers

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

— Dr. Seuss

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because…

— Terry Pratchett

“People should be more careful about what they read to their kids,” Park said. “Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.”

— Jennifer Crusie

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I…

— Alex Pettyfer

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to…

— Margaret Atwood

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

— Josh Fox

“Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but…

— Rusty Schweickart

Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't…

— Garry Disher

We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy.…

— Kevin DeYoung

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain,…

— Eleanor Catton

“A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it…

— Mark Waters

“Read or Starve." Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an…

— Orison Swett Marden

I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school…

— Lupe Fiasco

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me…

— Terry J. Lundgren

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

— Vivienne Westwood

I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or…

— Wendi Deng Murdoch

I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing…

— Joe Budden

When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my…

— Harper Reed

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day…

— Anonymous

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run…

— Tom Douglas

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

— Susan Sontag

I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson.

— Darynda Jones

A great quote remains great when we not only read it but aslo apply it to our daily life.

— Vikrant Parsai

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

— Tyler Hilton

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

“I saw things in Florida that I had only ever read about in engineering text books before.”

— Steven Magee

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night…

— Scott Turow

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week…

— David Gest

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

— Hilary Mantel

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— H. L. Mencken

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

— Michel Faber

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I…

— Joe Lo Truglio

I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

— Guy Kawasaki