Read Quotes

Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

In the days of slavery, this suppression was openly, scientifically and consistently applied. Sheer physical force kept the Negro captive at every point. He was prevented from learning to read and write, prevented by laws actually inscribed in the statute books.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

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?'

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.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual report

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

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.

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.