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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.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
When I have trouble sleeping, I'll read, watch old episodes of 'Sex and the City,' or dance around my house. Music helps me wind down.
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
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.
I learned to question everything you read. Don't take anything at face value. Don't care what other people say. I liked that philosophy.
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
There are two ways that lack of sleep affects my play: I'll play too many hands and I'll lose the ability to effectively read my opponents.
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
When I read Rush Limbaugh's 'The Way Things Ought to Be,' it was like a page-turning thriller to me. Every page was like some new revelation.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
People don't want to read about my work with the homeless or the time and money I pour into animal rescue and organizations that fight poaching.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.