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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. -- William Penn
Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things. -- Marie Rutkoski
Man is what he reads. -- Joseph Brodsky
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books. -- Jason Momoa
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. -- Dwight L. Moody
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You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. -- Clint Eastwood
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. -- George Bernard Shaw
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. -- Andy Rooney
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -- Ronald Reagan
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. -- Walter Scott
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. -- Ben Shapiro
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. -- Benjamin Franklin
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. -- John Shelby Spong
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected. -- Louis Sullivan
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. -- Mandy Moore
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. -- Irving Penn
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. -- Haniel Long
I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. -- Joel Madden
It reads better than it lives -- Ian Fleming
Who, except the poets, reads poetry? -- Babette Deutsch
One reads alone, even in another's presence. -- Italo Calvino
I reads every chance I can gets. -- George W. Bush
One reads in order to ask questions -- Franz Kafka
One reads not for information, but inspiration. -- Wayne Teasdale
You don't read scripture, scripture reads you. -- Mike Glenn
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. -- George Crabbe
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
The man who never reads lives only one. -- George R. R. Martin
I read like the flame reads the wood. -- Alfred Doblin
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. -- Mickey Spillane
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. -- Walter Mosley
The wise man reads both books and life itself. -- Lin Yutang
Woe be to him that reads but one book. -- George Herbert
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil -- Eminem
A man is known by the books he reads. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. -- N. K. Jemisin
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. -- Anatole France
He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance. -- Sherman Alexie
My mum reads every script before I go for it. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,' -- Mickey Rooney
Every poem is unique to each person who reads it. -- Salil Jha
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. -- Alan Bennett
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. -- Karl Barth
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. -- Daniel Handler
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books. -- Romain Rolland
If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing. -- Paul de Man
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering -- Ben Jonson
When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you. -- Max Lucado
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. -- Khaled Hosseini
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. -- Joan Aiken
My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud. -- James Arthur
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. -- Jasper Fforde
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads -- Marcus Aurelius
My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread. -- Terry Pratchett
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. -- Robert Penn Warren
Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book. -- Toba Beta
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". -- Stefan Molyneux
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. -- Alice Fulton
The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails. -- Gary Paulsen
Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with. -- Jen Lancaster
But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read! -- Katherine Mansfield
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books. -- Elfriede Jelinek
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay. -- Larisa Oleynik
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. -- Sarah Dessen
Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. -- Oswald Spengler
An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment. -- Mason Cooley
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such. -- Terry Pratchett
Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you. -- Tina Brown
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live -- Annie Dillard
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. -- C. S. Lewis
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. -- Steven Pressfield
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Auden
It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. -- Colleen Hoover
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books. -- Jan Karon
I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out. -- Jerry Falwell
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. -- Gore Vidal
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. -- Cornelia Funke
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears. -- Carine Roitfeld
Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it." -- Wilferd Peterson
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers. -- Sarah Vowell
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. -- Vincente Minnelli
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others. -- Ambrose
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. -- Susan Stinson
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. -- Stanislaw Lem
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted -- Lin Yutang
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. -- Jose Saramago
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. -- Allan Sherman
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. -- Henry Green
[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words. -- Edward Kennedy
I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud. -- Charlize Theron
All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that. -- Katie Price
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. -- Lin Yutang
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. -- Salman Rushdie
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. -- Roger Ebert
Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. -- Steven Herrick
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. -- Jonathan Daniels
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