To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Biblioll College. Sir, – I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other

If a 25-year old can’t read and write and he or she isn’t gaining marketable skills, it doesn’t matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them

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.

It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don’t Google my name or my pen names. I don’t go on message boards. I don’t read my book reviews.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when I read it as a kid.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

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.

Several weeks went by, during which Martin Eden studied his grammar, reviewed the books on etiquette, and read voraciously the books that caught his fancy.

Mrs. Morse did not require a mother’s intuition to read the advertisement in Ruth’s face when she returned home. The flush that would not leave the cheeks told the simple story, and more eloquently did the eyes, large and bright, reflecting an unmistakable inward glory.

When I was in seminary,” Father Edward had told other guests around the table when he was purchasing his books, “my spiritual director told me not to read theology. ‘Read novels,’ he said, and I have.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

My mother insisted that her children read.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone’s true character is revealed.

There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn’t even read Keats’s book when he gave him a copy.

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.

Oh, HONESTLY, don’t you two read?

After a moment’s consideration, she switched to the spot next to Pillover and attempted to read over his shoulder, ignoring his faint goaty smell. All boys smell of goat.

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way

I wasn’t a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn’t make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

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

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

A book is a conversation between the writer and the reader.

A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, a meeting of minds across time and space

The writer’s job is to create an experience for the reader that is as close as possible to the experience he had when he wrote the book

I’m the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven’t read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A drug more harmful than the so-called heroic drugs has entered the national culture: easy money. The idea flourished that the law is the greatest obstacle to happiness, that learning to read and write is useless, that one lives better and safer as a criminal than as good people. In short: the state of social perversion typical of every larvae war.

I don’t have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It’s not a scientific thing.

I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

I like to be with my family, to read books, and know what is going on in the world…

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

You can become an unstoppable, consistent, goal achieving machine. You just need to practice the proven strategies contained in my talks and books.

Read, listen to and associate with positive-minded people.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”

I don’t give a f***. We’re not fighting. I don’t care what anyone thinks about me. All the stuff I have to do outside the fighting, the promotion, this, I don’t give a f***. But when I am facing up for a fight, I know what they’re thinking. I can read their minds. When I am going face to face with an opponent, nose to nose, I can smell the fear, and I’m feeling no fear at all.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself ‘an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third’]

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

But read it we must.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one’s brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

You’ve read about the goddesses, come on. They’re an international sensation. These are my girlfriends. These are the women that I love that have completed the three parts of my heart.

What they’re not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you react to it.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

I reads every chance I can gets.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

If I’m honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all.

Read my lips: No new taxes.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately

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.

To read too many books is harmful.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train

If I had read all this in a book, Harry, I think I would have wept over it. Somehow, now that it has happened actually, and to me, it seems far too wonderful for tears.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still have a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Always read your contract. Know what you’re getting yourself into. Know your worth.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.