Top 121 Reads Quotes

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that’s very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn’t grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family’s support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

I’m famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they’re finished.

To be honest, there is a special gift for doing voice-overs, and the people who did the voices in the ‘SpongeBob’ cast are excellent at cartoon voice-overs, and they bring something extra to the reads.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

There are scenes from books I’m happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don’t, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It’s more about finding yourself. It’s really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that ‘Huge’ was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Man is what he reads.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

It’s weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone’s writing all day long – sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they’re James Cameron’s Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, ‘I write only for myself, I don’t care if anyone reads it.’ A writer without a reader doesn’t exist.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‘The End Is Near,’ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

If I could have one superpower, I’d be like Mel Gibson in ‘What Women Want,’ where he reads women’s minds.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there’s a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

I am a health nut who juices daily, takes vitamins, stays active, works out, does yoga, goes to sweat lodges, eats healthy and reads up on nutrition and spirituality.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says ‘Far out’, then they let me do what I want with it and that’s usually more interesting for an actor.

I don’t think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

But I honestly don’t read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can’t hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

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.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they’re doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I can’t control that, nor if they like the work, so best not to even try.

Dad’s like the Six Million Dollar Man – as soon as he feels a twinge, he wants it fixed. He’s even had laser surgery on his eyes. What really annoys me is that I have to put glasses on to read something to him – but he reads it without glasses.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that’s what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

‘Palaces for the People’ reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed.

Some readers took ‘Heaven’s My Destination’ as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

For me, I’ve always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

There’s always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you’re the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You’re always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn’t end when you come off the court.

I find the idea of the recap page to be something of a waste. It’s the page nobody ever reads and it’s even worse because it doesn’t tell you who anybody really is.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

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.

It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.

Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that’s the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests.

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.

In music, you can use metaphors with ease – if a person doesn’t understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.