He Read Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of… — Umberto Eco
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if… — Francis Bacon
He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.… — John Bellairs
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read. — V.S. Naipaul
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;… — Victor Hugo
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato. — Grant Morrison
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those… — Thomas Mann
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't… — John Steinbeck
He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in… — Ted Dekker
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain. — Nathanael West
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his… — Flannery O'Connor
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the… — Kurt Vonnegut
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he… — Terry Pratchett
Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be.… — Robert Fulghum
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on… — James A. Baldwin
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did… — Jon Krakauer

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