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442 quotes by 383 authors

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. — Russell Baker
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that… — Glenn Beck
Man is what he reads. — Joseph Brodsky
I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I… — Malin Akerman
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I… — Fiona Apple
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles… — Duke of Wellington
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others. — Mark the Evangelist
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. — Charles Clark
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide… — Marie Clay
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to… — Thomas Jefferson
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. — Joseph Hall
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken
I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your… — Spencer W. Kimball
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain

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