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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see… — Kate DiCamillo
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. — Hannah Cowley
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. — Edward Young
You can never trust what you read. — William Goldman
Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly. — Bret Michaels
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. — Thomas Ken
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. — Sloan Wilson
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H. W. Bush
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. — Francis Lockier
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other… — Cyril Connolly
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. — Robert Louis Stevenson
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. — David Remnick
My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from… — Wentworth Miller
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view… — Fiona Shaw
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and… — Tim Tebow
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the… — Viola Davis
I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. — Mike Wallace
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all… — Lily Collins
Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out… — Colin Hanks
From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it.… — Anna Chlumsky
And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students… — Mitch McConnell
The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or… — Daniel Hannan
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition.… — Daniel Hannan

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