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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. (Oprah Winfrey)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I want to read a novel, I write one. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. View quote
Lord Byron
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? View quote
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. View quote
William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. (William Hazlitt)
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. View quote
George Eliot
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. View quote
George Carlin
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. View quote
M. H. Abrams
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. (Edmund Burke)
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. View quote
Gore Vidal
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. View quote
Norman Mailer
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. View quote
Lou Reed
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