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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
Doug Coupland

Men, Long, Woman

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Staley

True, Nothing, Rumors

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Write, Tried

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

Lying, Begins, Sentence

I love to read about what my love life is really like.
Jennifer Aniston

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.
Jennifer Aniston

Funny, Find, Scripts

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Live, Books, Master

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan

Fiction, Newspapers, Continuous

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Find, Honest

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin

Books, Watch, Tv

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

Someone, Recognize, Frightens

I don't read reviews.
William Shatner

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

Books, Simpler, Buy

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.
Willie Nelson

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens

Fool, Enough, President

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing

Political, Free, Tell

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
Joan Rivers

History, Nice, Yeah

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush

Trust, Time, Give

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. Rowling

Fun, Regret, Find

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
J. K. Rowling

Poetry, Touch, Turn

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller

Give, Enjoy, Prayer

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
Charles Kuralt

Country, Rich, Moon

Read much, but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
Vanessa Hudgens

Down, Try, Haters

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.
Sienna Miller

Ignore, Negative, Energy

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

Life, Mother, Person

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

Religion, Nothing, Country

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
Jamie Dimon

Elected, Banks, Constantly

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Find, Honest

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