All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.
If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a little bit and probably at best he'd be remembered as a Rabbi who said some cool things but that nobody really reads anymore. There's tons of them.
I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.
One reads for pleasure. . . it is not a public duty.
I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out.
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.
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return. . . and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation.
It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.