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I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that… — Kate Bush
I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would… — Regina Spektor
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for… — John Cage
A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she… — Judy Blume
Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare… — Sam Kinison
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without… — Edith Wharton
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles… — Tony Blair
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything.… — Pope Francis
A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard… — Nora Roberts
We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a… — Larry Page
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. — Curtis Sittenfeld
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. — John McGahern
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious… — Andrew Weil
Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it. — Andy Richter
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. — Andy Richter
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden… — John Flavel
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things… — Elbert Hubbard
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett
Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while… — Iyanla Vanzant
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and… — Jacques Ellul
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read… — Eugene H. Peterson
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. — Cynthia Ozick

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