Quotes About Read

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read.

and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

With Irene's help, I could perform the tasks of an Extraordinary Person. She could read and write, for one thing. And I trusted her.

Well then! it was the end; his ruin was complete. Even if he mended the cables and lit the fires, where would he find men? Another fortnight's strike and he would be bankrupt. And in this certainty of disaster he no longer felt any hatred of the Montsou bandits; he felt that all had a hand in it, that it was a general agelong fault. They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

And as proof that he has delivered them to you, bring your preconceptions to bear. Bring the arguments of philosophers. Bring what you've often heard, and often said yourself; what you've read, and what you've practised.

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.

Oh bell-dumb heart, it makes you a fool to think you were ever closer to opening up the world — to art, to breaking it apart — than those who came before. But knowing that can't make you read or breathe more slowly. Since when did you listen to anyone? To give up on motivation is to give up on the work we do with alphabet and light. It's not enough to hunt or haunt our parents' hearts; we must occupy our own.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that.

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read.

My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.