Quotes of: Read Keyword

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

William Shatner

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ (VH1)]

Warren Zevon

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

Zoe Sugg

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

Charlie Hunnam

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Jon Bon Jovi

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

Jacob Young

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

Sheryl Sandberg

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on the internet, you should not; when nobody's walking, you should walk; when few people are reading profound books, you should read. ... rather than se...

China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed t...

Essays and Aphorisms

Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her morals, and her sa...

East of Eden

I work for a mom and pop business. They’re my mom and pop, and by work I mean they give me an allowance. But that’ll end soon. By age 30, in just a few months, they said it’d be time for me to earn a living. I guess that means they’ll want me...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you’d like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because ...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I had an out-of-body experience so strange that it felt normal. You see, my soul, or essence, had left my body and went and inhabited the body of my clone. So I wasn’t in my body, and yet I was. Or maybe none of that happened, and I was just in a d...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I want to price my next book and adjust it for the coming hyperinflation. So instead of the normal one dollar price, I’ll charge $1,000,000.00. If I sell one copy now I’ll be a happy man, and if I sell a million copies after hyperinflation hits i...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I wrote half this book (the left half) while I was asleep, and I wrote the other half (the top half) while daydreaming. So here we have a case where two halves equal one quarter, which is about what this book is worth—give or take 25 cents.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I went on a blind date last night. We watched a silent film. We stayed up all night talking in sign language. I fell asleep in the fetal position in her cat's litter box. Ah, 'twas a great night. I'll never forget dancing with an albino under the sta...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I was hot so I gave myself a haircut. I then saw a bald man sweating, so I offered to tweeze his eyebrows. He accepted and was so grateful that he offered to trade mustaches with me. In remembrance of that special bonding moment, I still wear his mus...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Would women find vampires even sexier and more romantic if instead of fangs they had rose thorns? It’s thoughts like these I think of when digging in my garden, looking for my one true love (If only I could remember where I buried her!).


At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I removed all the doors to our love, so you can’t lock yourself away from me. But I didn’t stop there. I also replaced the doors with metal detectors, so I could fondle you more efficiently, like the highly trained professionals do who run airpor...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

What the government makes to make money is money. They make money by making money—literally printing it. While the private sector has to make money the hard way—by producing a good or service that others willingly want to buy. That’s why the pr...

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.