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Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question… — Tim Parks
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears… — Joseph Epstein
Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen… — Molly Crabapple
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover… — Meg Medina
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is… — John N. Bahcall
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try… — John Hay
Can I read it? They really liked it when I did it. — CM Punk
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans… — Conan O'Brien
Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and… — Jonah Goldberg
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read… — John Galsworthy
Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I… — Joyce Rupp
I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold… — Joni Eareckson Tada
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember… — Nikolai Berdyaev
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth… — Eliot Porter
We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able… — Steve Squyres
If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story. — Jim Lehrer
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education… — Bell Hooks
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of… — Leo Tolstoy
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would… — Linda Fairstein
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read. — Gene Roddenberry
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H.… — J. Courtney Sullivan

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