Read Quotes

I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.

At certain times I read a lot of poetry. My favorite poets are Shelley and Keats. Rimbaud is so identifiable. Lord Byron. I don't know. Lately if I read poems, it's like I can always hear the guitar. Even with Shakespeare's sonnets I can hear a melody because it's all broken up into timed phrases so I hear it. I always keep thinking, 'What kind of song would this be?'

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual report

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Read less, study less, but think more.

I read poetry to save time.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

In the humble environs of my boyhood, books were a scarce commodity. By local standards, however, the personal library of STR Manickam, a former 'revolutionary' or militant nationalist, was sizeable. He encouraged me to read all I could and I often visited his home to borrow books.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.