I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn

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?
Jim Rohn

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Billy Graham

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Saint Augustine

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt