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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.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.