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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.