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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

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

This sheaf of paper with gaudy cover glued to the spine is not the book. The book is not an object on the table, it is an event in the readers mind.... The book, therefore is only finished when someone reads it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

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 thought Jay did a great job. Of course he made some mistakes, but what was impressive was that he made the correct reads and got the ball to the right guys. Of course it helped that we were never in the position that we had to throw the ball, we threw it only by desire.

Paul Ernest

He plays the game like a veteran. He's looking at the game like a veteran. I saw some of the reads he was picking up and some of our veteran quarterbacks weren't picking them up as fast as he was, so that's to his credit.

Fred Miller

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, 'Information'; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

Grace Murray Hopper

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Gunther Grass

The average American reads, hears and sees only one side of this story.

Tom Wallace

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Sheldon Kopp

It reads very clearly to me that the Ministry of Finance has done the homework and ready for implementation.

Niu Li

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

These are the kind of people the typical Web audience reads about.

Don Luskin

He really does a great job for us. He wrestles smart and that was just a thing that happened. He felt bad about, but I told him he did a great job. It was a learning experience for him and it's something he'll never forget now - how that rule reads.

Tom Stauch

What the Church is doing, to the outside observer who reads this, is immediately equating gay men with the abuse that is going on here that is perpetuating something that is absolutely not true.

Joe Solmonese

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

Justin Griffith

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

Laura brings lots of experience as a National Pool ODP player that adds a tremendous bonus to our team. She is a strong technical player who reads the game very well. We feel very fortunate to have her as a part of our team.

Brooks Monaghan

If you look at our numbers, the play of our quarterbacks was very impressive. They made the right reads on their passes.

Dale Lennon

It's just convenient. You can't miss it. Not everybody eats at Newcomb or reads the newspaper. It's probably the best way to reach everyone.

Ryan Johnson

That's what she does so well. Molly always makes it a point to open my eyes to something new. Her whole take on movies is so much more intellectually based than mine. She also reads things into movies that I don't always see. I'm not sure the filmmakers always saw those things.

Robert Osborne

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.

Floyd Burnsed

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

He's a crafty, keen player. Crafty in the way he goes about it on the ice and keen on the way he picks up things and reads plays.

Dave Tippett

But this is not how we read the law. We believe the way the law reads we can still qualify for both programs.

Quintin Trammell

Quite frankly, I think they?re both good and bad. Some of them are excellent reads. Some of them provide value to consumers. And I think there are some that are just plain mean-spirited.

Michael Wiley

He is playing the game at a faster pace now. He gets the ball off quicker, he can check out of plays quicker and he's going through his reads quicker and getting it to the right guy.

Maurice Drew

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

Steve Zeller

Every manager reads Rule 21 [which prohibits betting on baseball] to every player.

Dave Bristol

He's got his head on straight. He reads himself properly.

Jim Devellano

He's a tremendous player (who is) learning to be more patient with his reads. You want the ball in his hands. He can break a big play at any time. I'm glad we have him on our side.

Karl Dorrell

He was calm, made the right reads. Tom directed the team well and was a true leader out there.

Mike Dimatteo

With Gerell, you have to make him find you, ... He likes to scramble a lot, and he is on the run and has to find you. With Mark, he is more of the drop-back passer who will sit and go through all of his reads to find you.

Mike Barker

Every buyer that reads that negotiates harder.

Peter Francese

Employer sanctions can be a very efficient tool if enforced. The problem is the way the law reads, it's basically a joke. It basically gives employers a huge loophole to walk through.

George Borjas

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We had our chances at the end and couldn't finish those chances. They continued to win every ball in the middle. Every high ball, they won. That was it. That's going to kill us all year until someone reads the paper hopefully or figures out what we're going to have to do.

Marc Nesci

Tommy has good size and is very skilled. He reads the field very well and has been a pleasant surprise. I am expecting big things from him.

Dick Nyman

We just weren't playing good. As a rookie quarterback, I wasn't getting my reads right and wasn't calling the plays we needed.

David Dowd

His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn.

Nicholas Meyer

Nobody went past her. She may not be the fastest defender, but she reads it extremely well. Her confidence level has to be quite high right now.

Markus Roeders

He actually reads and writes it better than he speaks it which suggests to me it won't be long before he picks up the language.

Kenny Jackett

It's being able to see things, see all the reads and keys, distribute it all in your mind and make a positive decision. And he's nearly always right. And that separates him from almost everybody. And that's what all great players can do, in any sport. He's reaching those levels of possibly becoming a great player for us.

John Neal

It seems like once he get knocked around a bit he gets into a groove. He made some great throws and reads.

Frank Sheptock

It reads like one and it smells like one.

Miriam Kramer

I thought he was in control of the game, managed it well, ... He led us. He made the right reads and made good throws. He did what quarterbacks are supposed to do.

Lovie Smith

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

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

Larry Brown in the luckiest man in the league. He puts a wretched product on the floor night after night, watches it unravel...and then reads and hears how his record is everyone's fault but his own.

Brian O'connor

For people to say he's staring at the receiver ... in our offense, he's making his reads. He's doing exactly what we've taught him.

K.c. Keeler

We have a base defense, but you can scheme offenses out of. We have different reads when we face different offenses. What you're seeing is 11 kids that can and will run to the football. We are very pleased with that. That is what this defense is built around which is speed.

Mickey Crouch

This team plays under control and makes the right reads. We have to be efficient and execute as a team. That's the only way to beat them. We have to play the right way.

Anthony Goldwire

It helped prepare me for the season. I wanted to get the comfort back of playing in the paint. I wanted to work on making different moves and getting different reads.

Ruth Riley

It's an extremely well-read magazine. It reaches the kind of people we want to reach -- corporate entities, startups, everybody reads Inc. You couldn't buy that kind of advertising.

Bob Potter

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Patrick Reilly

We had the wrong protections. We had blown reads by the quarterbacks. We had blown routes run by the receivers. We got to be perfect to be a good team.

Ahmand Tinker

We made some bad reads on defense. We didn't talk at all on defense. That automatically makes you 25 percent better when you talk on defense.

Chet Reed

When I left New York I had a lot to prove, ... and I've still got a lot to prove. Each day I've got to prove something. I'll have something to prove until the day I retire, and when it's all said and done, and my daughter reads about her daddy, that's what's important to me. Nothing else.

Cornelius Griffin

It seems to be the second coming for Fox, ... They're throwing everything into this thing. And it's great that they are. It's a great, great story. ... It reads like a high-concept feature film.

Dominic Purcell

They have a great quarterback. He reads defenses well and gets rid of it in a hurry. We're not going to stop him. He's going to get his yards. But we have to make him earn everything and try to contain him.

Bernard Davis

The tax code reads that the responsibility for the tax is ultimately on the consumer.

Lee Baerlocher

J.J. made great decisions in the run game. We gave him some options. He made good reads all night and had a few big plays for us.

John Schlarman

On the margin, the statement reads as if the Fed has quite a bit of confidence in the economy. There's a fairly optimistic undertone about the economic momentum.

Jeff Young

There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence.

Jay Rockefeller

Nobody listens, nobody reads. You have a very small circle of decision-makers in charge of decisions in the country. What do you expect?

Marwan Kabalan

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

Sarah Dessen

That's how the law reads.

Dennis Hewitt

It's great to be back - I missed it. It was just day three for me, and we're getting better. Ben is making good reads and we need to make some plays for him.

Hines Ward

Fun, dramatic, enticing reads.

Russell Smith

Her pet peeve is pictures that don't go along with the words when she reads.

Sharon Rexroth

I know the protections a little bit better, know the routes a little bit better, know my reads a little bit better. That all helps.

Adrian Mcpherson

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

He's super-bright. He's just one of those guys - he reads something and he knows it.

Jim Court

I thought we played hard, but I thought we had too many mental breakdowns. We weren't making very many reads, we weren't cutting hard to the ball.

Mark Nore

He holds her hand, prays with her and reads the Bible to her.

Sandra Ritchey

I'm not as fast as some of those guys [who are option quarterbacks], but as long as you operate it right, you make the right reads, that's all that matters.

Jonathan Wilson

Bush's aides made the point that not everyone reads the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rather, the Bush people were like antimatter: rather than having the normal inclination to feed their egos by garnering attention, they had the opposite orientation and were nearly impervious to press criticism.

Ronald Kessler

I'd love to give each of (the receivers) the same number of throws, but I have to go through my reads, and see what's open.

Colt Brennan

We've been moving the ball fairly well on the ground and we were able to do so against Cedar Creek. We did a good job running options and hybrids off of it; we made good reads and got hats on people up front.

Vic Dalrymple

It's real exciting. He's a good quarterback and he makes good reads all the time. Our receiving corps is so used to him and we know when the ball is coming to us because we read the defense just as well as he does.

Keith Brown

He mistrusts anyone who reads past the sports pages of the tabloids.

Peter Roebuck

He's a little different. He's a little more nifty, a little quicker. He reads the blocking pretty well. He's not the biggest guy, but he can hide a little bit. When you get to him, you've really got to wrap up because he can spin out of things.

Scott Paxson

Studies show that one of every four people reads an ethnic newspaper. This shows that ethnic newspapers have a place and purpose in serving our diverse population.

Sandy Close

The thing we've had trouble with is she turns on the ball too fast. She goes very quickly ? reads the pitch too quickly sometimes.

Dave Heise

He knows the game, he reads it well. He's a leader out on the field, he's always talking, especially to the younger guys, and he really takes charge. That's what a coach needs.

Jose Dacosta

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Larisa Oleynik

Maybe some teams would have given up, but they fought and were able to get back in the game. It's really a lesson both ways. If you're down, you know there's always a chance until the clock reads triple zeros. If you're ahead, don't let up.

Daylon Mccutcheon

Very inconsistent. He made some good plays and some really good reads, but then there were times he should have thrown the ball away.

Mark Hutson

If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. [Its] departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England.

Mark Wallington

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Edwards

Jen reads the game well. She's very good at playing cat-and-mouse, making it look like her mark is open then shooting in to break up the pass.

Denise Westcott

We firmly believe it is the right and responsibility of parents to make decisions about what their child reads.

Beverly Becker

The theory is that the hard disc doesn't have to run all the time. Flash-based cache can reduce the number of reads to the hard disc and eliminate a lot of writes.

Richard Walsh

Tyler has been a great asset for us. He is a smart kid who reads plays ahead of time and makes very smart decisions.

Dale Hedges

It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.

Charles W. Colson

I also read a couple of Chopper Read's books, including Dave the Jew.

Scott Ryan

He jokes around -- when he looks up, he sees The Big Head. When he sees The Big Head, he reads where I'm going.

Taylor Twellman

The ... document reads like a love letter to for-profit health care providers.

Gil Mcgowan

She (M. Napolitano) reads the game very well and her passes have been great. Right now she's (Walls) my goalie. I have a lot of confidence in her.

Dominick Castaldo

It's a dream come true. He makes his reads; he runs people over.

David English

He's filling a vacancy and doing an outstanding job. It's going to be key for us to get our offense going. We missed some reads in the South Plainfield game that we hope to correct this week.

Ron Hilliard

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Sandra Moore

It's kind of like a chat room. All of the classes and lectures are downloaded there. Then you fulfill the assignments and upload them to classmates and the teacher. Everybody reads each other's assignments and participates in online discussions.

Phil Freyer

The difference in ink colors is very important because we have equipment that reads the forms differently.

Kathy Waterbury

I made a few mistakes on the goal line. It's not all about the offensive line. It's about making the right reads.

Yvenson Bernard

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Mark Edwards

And reads a book.

Joe Theismann

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

E. M. Forster

Every linebacker on that team had some bad habits to get rid of, and that's what he did, improved all our shuffling and our reads and made us all better, every last one of us - even Ray.

Edgerton Hartwell