They Read Quotes

113 They Read quotes by 100 unique authors

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter… — Bruce Kent
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature… — Matthew Arnold
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until… — Jean Liedloff
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down… — Joseph Sugarman
I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch… — Matt Groening
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. — Christopher Hitchens
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. — A J Liebling
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors… — Michael Morpurgo
I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who… — Rupert Murdoch
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. — Will Self
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that… — Arabella Weir
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. — E. O. Wilson
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. — Alberto Manguel
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again… — Donald Miller
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a… — Susanna Clarke
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what… — Jennifer Donnelly
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they… — Francois Truffaut

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