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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love… — Jim Bishop
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. — William Blake
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police… — William Peter Blatty
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. — Mary J. Blige
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is… — Allan Bloom
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a… — Orlando Bloom
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much… — Judy Blume
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
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… — Erma Bombeck
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say… — Bono
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi… — Bono
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate… — Norman Borlaug
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. — Ray Bradbury
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you… — Ray Bradbury
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to… — Ray Bradbury
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. — Jo Brand

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