Reading Them Quotes

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce… — Linus Torvalds
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and… — Charles Lane Poor
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you… — Emilia Fox
I can learn my lines fine. Itâ€™s just reading them in the first place that is the problem. — Salma Hayek
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. — Julie B. Beck
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." — Austin Kleon
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to… — Ho Chi Minh
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. — Jeff Jarvis
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you… — John Green
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see… — Peter Ustinov
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really… — Corbin Bleu
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us -… — Ray Bradbury
There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been… — Michael Chabon
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually… — Aaron Swartz
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were… — Shigeru Miyamoto
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do… — Gary Saul Morson
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't… — Nell Freudenberger

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