Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. — Robert Duvall
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each… — Lewis Mumford
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands… — Anatole Broyard
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads — Marcus Aurelius
Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it." — Wilferd Peterson
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on… — Elizabeth Haydon
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black… — Unknown Author
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own… — Helen Simonson
A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film. — Peter Straughan
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code… — Joshua Bloch
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Unknown Author
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the… — Thomas Paine
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie… — Tablo
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or… — Jay McInerney
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make… — Gail Carriger
If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance. — Sherman Alexie
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take… — Claude C. Hopkins
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. — Chris Moneymaker
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
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. — Vincente Minnelli
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a… — David Amram
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more… — Allegra Goodman
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf

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