Reading Them Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.
— Salma Hayek
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
— Jeff Jarvis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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