I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Matt Groening

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.

Quran

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Anatole Broyard

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Augustine Birrell

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.

Norman Cousins

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

W. Averell Harriman

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Richard Darman

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Rufus Choate

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

L. Estrange

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Harold S. Geneen

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Charles de Montesquieu

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

S. I. Hayakawa

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Irving Howe

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Aneurin Bevan

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

August Hare

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

Spike Milligan

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Roger Rosenblatt

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Charles Kingsley

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Joseph Priestley

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Richard Steele, Sr.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Jim Bishop

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Clarence Day

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling.

Rhoda Koenig

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Mary Schmich

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

David Viscott

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain De Botton

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

Anatole Broyard

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

William H. Gass

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

E. F. Schumacher

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Edward Gibbon

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

Ernest Dimnet

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

Oscar Wilde

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Oscar Wilde

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

Reading musses up my mind.

Henry Ford

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Irish Proverb

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...

William Shakespeare

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Aldous Huxley

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Charles Dickens

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

Ausonius

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Douglas Adams

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong

It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.

Sir Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Sir Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.

William Cobbett

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

George F. Burns

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield

Reading is no substitute for action.

Colleen Wainwright

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

German Proverb

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

William Faulkner

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

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.

Gore Vidal

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

James Madison

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.

Erma Bombeck

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Hoffer

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preacher

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

Ideally, we will see something we recognize from the conductor's reading in the musicians' readings about two seconds later, and then in the audience's readings.

Daniel Levitin

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

I can't get a good read on him.

Joe Carson

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Thomas Sowell

Working as a bookbinder, I had put covers on "The Lord of the Rings," but I never read it. It was just too big. I finally read it when I knew I was playing Pippin and realized that really it is all about Pippin and some other people!

Billy Boyd

She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.

Holly Armstrong

If they give you 5 plus 5, anyone could add and subtract. But you have to read and figure out the problems together. The questions are not really straightforward.

K.o. Frater

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

It's like a happy hum when the kids are reading aloud to the dogs.

Sharon Anderson

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn't it be easier just to be outdated?

Ram Dass

The defense got it out well and I flicked it to Pablo. He read the play beautifully and hit it back to me. I just went around the defender and put it in.

Chase Barbieri

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

The idea is to give back some of the freedom and independence that the blind have lost, like being able to cross the street and eventually maybe read a newspaper with large print. Our first goal is to make daily life easier, to detect edges and motion.

Luke Theogarajan

Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young.

James Elroy Flecker

She read some things on the Internet and that kind of helped her, fired her up. She just read some things about the race that were an incentive for her.

Bob Jumper

We're serious about this. We want to be great cocktail party chatter, a great informative read. We are not a textbook.

Chris Johns

I didn't read anything in there that didn't say that he didn't do a good job, that he was praised by a lot of people he worked with.

John Kasich

It's very exciting to be here. Being here with some people who I read about when I was younger, some of them I've met, some of them I'm meeting for the first time.

Lavell Edwards

'The Evolution Diet' is extremely informative and insightful, yet it's funny and is a light read for those who want to just read bits and pieces.

Lulu

Credit cards are powerful tools, but they can be dangerous, so you have to read the instructions carefully.

Janet Eissenstat

We read every newspaper article printed on that team. We knew they were a second-half club, so at no point in the first half did we think the game was over.

Daquan Gibson

You might want to read the old clippings about Martha Stewart .

Jan Baran

I have read about the concerns of dealing with Russia, but if you visit Moscow you see that Russia will never go back to the old way of the Soviets.

George Schultz

Reading on the run is a technique you develop.

Mike Schuh

I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me -- not if they've read my adult fiction.

Carl Hiaasen

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Tom Bailey

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Phyllis Mcginley

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

It's never too soon to start reading with your child.

Lisa Blair

I've read that crude prices are higher because of emerging demand in China and India, though the timing strikes me as odd. Why did those countries' demands jump up during summer, as opposed to say spring or last fall?

Charles Mason

I always figure that the C.B. Relays is kind of like our Drake. It's our toughest meet competition-wise, and the kids get to see some of the guys they read about in the newspaper.

Brad Kruse

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Jonah Raskin

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

It went through the Planning Commission and made it to the board, but on the second reading it got disapproved. The developers met with some aldermen and got further guidance on the changes they should make.

Tom Marsh

I was in bed, and I got the script and I was reading it, and I said, 'Man, this is really good, there's no way I'll get hired for this!'

James Gandolfini

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

She read a lot of books on it.

David Kirby

A 12-year-old 20 years ago and a 12-year-old today are reading at very different levels. That's just the way it is.

Greg Rucka

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Carly Simon

That was very disappointing the way we played in the first quarter. I thought we looked very nervous and kind of passive. I don't know if the kids read a little bit too much into Coffman's record. They are an extremely good team. They're very big and they're very well coached. They're not going to hurt themselves.

Steve Hare

Many molecules are known that interfere with reading, or transcribing, genes' DNA to get RNA. But no one had found a molecule that specifically prevents initiation of the next step, the reading, or translation, of the RNA to build a protein.

Liu Jun

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

The overall reading is obviously very strong, but I think the market might be hampered a bit by the prices paid index being a bit lower here. That might be keeping a lid on the dollar.

John Beerling

When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience, ... August Wilson's legacy is as important as Martin Luther King's legacy, as important as Malcolm X's legacy and as important as Nat Turner.

Charles S. Dutton

Audrey read a newspaper article about dog therapy and became very interested, especially as Teddy is very lovable, has a sweet temperament and is comfortable with children.

Paula Almallah

Oh, I suppose, something like 'Remember our discussion?' Or maybe it's an invitation to dinner. I don't know -- I don't read them.

Margaret Sullivan

I am concerned. ... When you read a bill, you have to figure out ways around it to cover all the possible loopholes, and I'm not sure that has been done.

Robert Marshall

Getting your kids to read around other kids can help improve their level of reading greatly, ... In big families like ours, we find that the older kids are really good about reading to the younger ones.

Tina Simpson

We had a great response. I would say participation has only increased since then. We have over 30 student groups who read the 150 pages and want to sing.

Wendy Parkhouse

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

My hope was when I read it, there was a misprint. I really couldn't believe one could be proposed without St. Joseph County being part of it.

Mark Egan

The difference between this award and any other is that it's a reader's choice. People holler about other awards because they are committee-selected. This is not committee-selected. There are purists in literary circles who have a different sense of what is going on here, but we think anything you can do to get people reading is a good thing.

Gerry Byrne

It is all about being yourself. When I read it, I was so impressed.

Mary Blaker

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

Speak for yourself Dave, I've read all of it.

Todd Loper

The labor market appears solid heading into 2006, which could have bolstered the confidence reading in January.

Stephen Stanley

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett

The town of Biloxi is certainly deserving of a Reading Garden and some help. And we're glad we could come down and help make a difference to this community.

Barbara Hastings

It's really a chance for playwrights to get to hear their plays read and to hear actor, director and audience reaction.

Tracy Brigden

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Harper Lee

I have no clue what Scott Walker is talking about other than he's reading too much of (Democratic National Chairman) Howard Dean's rants against the Republicans and the president.

Mark Graul

Publishers risk losing the younger audience to other forms of media. They need to condition their audience to look forward to an author's next book and to read reviews. They ought to be training the next generation of consumers, and digital books can help with that.

Daniel O'brien

In Florida, we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages.

Rep. Marco Rubio

I love making people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ...despite what you might read about me!

Duff Mckagan

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive.

Lois Capps

I didn't make the connection as much until I started getting a lot of calls this week. I started to think of the parallels, and then when I read how their coach is handling this, it's kind of eerie.

Bobby Plump

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Stephen King

(Graduates) will read this and think 'The person is talking my language,'.

Margot Lester

When it comes to reading, parents can ensure that their children's literacy rights are honored! Talk to your child's school and find out about the quality reading practices that are going on in the classroom.

Carmelita K. Williams

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

It gets them interested in reading for pleasure, not necessarily for the information, which is really the ultimate goal because we want kids to enjoy reading.

Peter Slack

You hear and read of the destruction, see pictures, ... very devastating ... to come and see row after row of blackened, destroyed homes.

Mary Robinson

It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read if relationships were easy. There would be no art in the world if we actually got along.

Claire Danes

Boys Over Flowers. You won't find many boys reading that.

Liz Clark

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Arthur Christopher Benson

I don't want to read that any more. [Getting past .500] is important to me, but I don't want to overstate its importance. Whether we finish 82-80 or 80-82, there were gains this year. I think there has been a lot of progress and our fans should be feeling good about where we're going for 2006.

Rick Schlesinger

We're probably sitting in the room where Henry Ford and J.B. Campbell met. Campbell probably read about Ford's desire to build a mill on his newly acquired property.

Rich Gnatowski

Stories in an English newspaper look difficult, especially for those who've never read them, but they clearly state who did what, where and when and why and how. So they're actually easy to read.

Keiko Izumi

This isn't about personalities. This is a business deal. Anyone reading anything else into it is wrong.

Jim Cleamons

He's never owned up to the fact that plenty of inner-city minority schools are doing the job with less money. He's an ideologue so he can't admit Catholic schools are doing better jobs with less money, ... If you read the corpus of his work, it's clear he wants to use schools for indoctrinating kids with a progressive ideology.

Sol Stern

Since stress is subjective, change the way that you perceive things. A long commute, for example, can become an opportunity to listen to tapes of books that you'll never find time to read.

Joanne Herman

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire