Read Quotes

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

I read books more than I go out.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.