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We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we… — Melody Beattie
But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out,… — David Lynch
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that… — Beverly Cleary
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by… — Kenneth Koch
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. — Giacomo Casanova
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers. — Leah Price
You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories… — Dave Barry
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. — Stanislav Grof
I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was… — Madeleine Stowe
Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working. — Barack Obama
I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having… — Ace Frehley
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning… — Marianne Williamson
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's… — Tao Lin
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to… — Jack Osbourne
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson
My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home?… — Julianna Margulies
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to… — David Ogilvy
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one… — Gaston Bachelard
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you… — Nursultan Nazarbayev

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