You Read Quotes
667 quotes by 547 authors
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
— M H Abrams
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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
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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
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
— Julian Barnes
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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
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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
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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
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
— Jane Campion
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
— Sherman Alexie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
— Maya Angelou
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Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.
— George Carlin
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
— Soren Kierkegaard
Who Wrote These You Read Quotes
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