They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli

People read me but they don't subscribe.
Jay London

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

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
James Carville

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer

Read much, but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
Syd Barrett

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Britney Spears

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Marilyn vos Savant