Quotes 461 till 480 of 533.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
― Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
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When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
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When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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