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I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired… — James Fallows
Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read. — Anne Tyler
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. — Anne Tyler
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression… — Charles Kuralt
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be… — John Ruskin
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. — John Ruskin
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient,… — Anne Graham Lotz
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated… — Gary Saul Morson
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s… — Huston Smith
We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a… — Madonna Ciccone
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar… — Steve Kazee
Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but… — Bulleh Shah
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday… — Kajol
If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really… — Kajol
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with… — William Ernest Henley
Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth,… — John Robbins
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably… — Richard E. Grant
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe. — Annie Dillard

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