Quotes 281 till 300 of 492.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Source: The New Yorker April 7, 1956 -
People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
Source: Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006) -
Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.
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