You Read Quotes

667 quotes by 547 authors

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get… — Alan Ball
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that… — Lake Bell
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love… — Jim Bishop
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. — Ray Bradbury
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing… — Bill Bryson
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. — Sherman Alexie
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read,… — Steve Carell
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time. — Drew Carey
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring… — Angela Carter
I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's… — Kyle Chandler
The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left,… — Nick Clegg
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. — Maya Angelou
Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself. — George Carlin
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard

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