I Read Quotes

1362 I Read quotes by 1094 unique authors

I read; I travel; I become — Derek Walcott
I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people… — Twyla Tharp
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a… — Philip Pullman
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making… — Harper Lee
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once. — Jon Krakauer
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook… — Osip Mandelstam
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to… — Haruki Murakami
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional… — Alex Haley
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of… — James Frey
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same… — Elizabeth Bishop
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.… — Ray Bradbury
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I… — Jonathan Swift
I read to see myself in other people's lives. — Stephen Sondheim
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as… — Dodie Smith
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face… — Barack Obama
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars,… — KatÃ³ Lomb
A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love. — Antonio Lobo Antunes
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of… — Brigham Young
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. — Tom Peters

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