Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. — J. Oswald Sanders
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. — Jasper Fforde
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there… — Vladimir Nabokov
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woe be to him that reads but one book. — George Herbert
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. — Virginia Woolf
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is… — Albert Einstein
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books. — Elfriede Jelinek
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there… — Helen Keller
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,… — Garrison Keillor
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what… — Annie Dillard
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader… — Marcel Proust
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have… — William Gibson
I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card… — Ivan Turgenev
The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and… — Ted Dekker
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. — Francois Mauriac
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once… — James Joyce
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. — Robert A. Heinlein
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER — Warren Ellis
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams

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