We Read Quotes

275 quotes by 230 authors

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next… — John Berger
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing… — Geraldine Brooks
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long… — James Buchan
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection… — Thomas Carlyle
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that… — Henry Ward Beecher
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be… — C.S. Lewis
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of… — Matthew Henry
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. — Abraham Lincoln
We read to know we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis
While we read history we make history. — George William Curtis
With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce… — Lisa Loeb
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read… — Stephen Collins
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true… — Ramona Koval
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a… — Desmond Morris
In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue… — George Muller

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