Quotes of: Read Keyword

Fast Eddie: [reading] We have a contract of depravity; all we have to do is pull a blind down.

The Hustler

[Dwayne looks around van; writes frantically on notepad... ] Frank: [reading notepad] "Where's Olive?"... Sheryl: Oh!

Little Miss Sunshine

Lisa: You read the Bible Mr. Creasy? Creasy: Yeah, sometimes. Lisa: Does it help? Creasy: Yeah, sometimes

Man on Fire

Isaac Davis: No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.

Manhattan

Gil: She's right, I recently read a two-volume biography of Rodin, and Rose was the wife, Camille the mistress.

Midnight in Paris

[Outmaneuvering Rommel] Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!

Patton

Jim Stark: You know something? You read too many comic books.

Rebel Without a Cause

Sophie: [gently reading his palm] You will mountains. Stingo: Right now I can't even move my tongue.

Sophie's Choice

Palm Reader: [reading Watson's palm] I see two men. Two men. Brothers! Not in blood, but in bond.

Sherlock Holmes

Olga: Susie... Sarah... I once read that names which begin with the letter 'S' are the names of SNAKES! Sssss! Ssssss!

Suspiria

[Jake has left a dead hare hanging on the cottage door, along with a note] Monty: [reading the note] "Here. Hare. Here."

Withnail & I

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Iain Duncan Smith

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Jack L. Chalker

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Sean Astin

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of...

William Bernbach

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

William H. Wharton

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

Robert Crumb

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Jill Scott

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq