Read Quotes

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

I never read the tabloids.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.