Quotes with non-reading

Quotes 101 till 120 of 309.

  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Francis Quarles I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • John Millington Synge I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
    De last die ze droegen (1990)
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Mertz I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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  • Oscar Levant I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles de Secondat I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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  • John Ruskin If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
    Sesame and Lilies (1865)
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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  • Oscar Wilde If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • François Fénelon If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Ben Stein If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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