I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.
I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.
Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.
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?
I’m very much in the trenches, and I don’t live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there’s always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
How many times do you read about ‘the Cinderella story,’ the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person’s body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
Don’t believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don’t look for trouble.
To read too many books is harmful.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can’t read.
Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
Yes, I don’t read books for entertainment.
Rahul Gandhi gets a copy of every programme that has been started by the Centre during Parliamentary procedure, but he has got no time to read. He has got time to go to night clubs.
I don’t get Twitter or social media. I really don’t understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.
I’d like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that’s why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.
Most people don’t read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
I just want young people to read my books and feel cared for, feel safe, feel like there’s someone else in the world who understands – or at least acknowledges – your existence.
When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I’m like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we’re walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words – that’s magical. That’s what I’ve been trying to strive for – to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
The funny thing is, people’s perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they’re still going to read what they want to into it.
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can’t read sexuality off of gender.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
I don’t listen to what people say about me and I don’t read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I’m not going to worry about it.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
‘Fast Food Nation’ appeared as an article in ‘Rolling Stone’ before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.
In the area we live, there’s a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That’s lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.
To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don’t read the novel, really.
What’s the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I’m more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn’t.
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that’s not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
While we read history we make history.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
