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I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so… — Laura Bush
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age.… — Laura Bush
From candlelight to early bedtime, I read. — Thomas Jefferson
I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off… — Rio Ferdinand
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a… — David McCullough
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can… — Pauline Kael
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4'… — Hans Selye
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but… — Jimmy Carl Black
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to… — Mary Antin
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of… — Steven Amsterdam
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. — Jamie Zawinski
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to… — Seth Godin
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf
It's a lot of work to read a crummy script. — Bill Murray
For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. — Vilmos Zsigmond
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. — Laura Bush
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful… — Alphonsus Liguori
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more… — Herbert Spencer
It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn… — Ernest L. Boyer

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