Quotes About Read

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Do you ever read the scriptures? Every day, I said enthusiastically, not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel. She smiled, amused. What a barbarian you are!

Bugger Shekhar. How about a bibbi instead? Maybe I'll read. Your choice, Sharpe said carelessly.

Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.

'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

I love it in Udine, no doubt about it, but I am clearly pleased to read that other sides are interested in me.

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

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

The words I wrote would not be read by unborn eyes. I would become the forgotten wife of a horrid little man lusting for a son.

It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?

Joan Wilder? The novelist? I read your booooks!

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

I was familiar with Lovecraft, I also was familiar with his history as a person. So I had read his stories but I wasn't bananas like I think that a lot of people get bananas. I was like, they're good and I can definitely see the influences - but I can definitely read them and see the parts where you're being racist right there in your own stories.

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

While we read the Word, its message saturates our hearts, whether we are conscious of what is happening or not.

When a national discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.

For all the problems print underwent in 2016, newspapers—where they could be found—still provided information available nowhere else to those who still chose to read them.

He once told me the difference, as he saw it, between an author and a writer. An author (he said) is what they put on your passport, because in Europe they think a writer is a newspaperman. An author is somebody who get his name on the spine of leather-bound volumes that are never read; a writer is someone who gets hemorrhoids from sitting on his ass all his life...writing.

We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.

The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One