Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1813.

• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

  Bernardo Houssay
   
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• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• Property has its duties as well as its rights.

  Letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22-5-1838

  Henry Drummond
  Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  Abbe Pierre
  French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Al Jourgensen
  Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  Ben Carson
  American politician, and author (1951 - )
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• Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

  Ajay Naidu
  American actor (1972 - )
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• Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker
  American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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• Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker
  American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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• Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

  Malcolm X
  American activist (1925 - 1965)
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• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

  George Holbrook Jackson
  British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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• Read good, big important things.

  Peggy Noonan
  American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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• Read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert
  French writer (1821 - 1880)
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• Read much, but not many books.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Read my lips: no new taxes.

  George H.W. Bush
  American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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• Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

  William Faulkner
  American writer (1897 - 1962)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• well-rounded
• particularly
• storytelling
• compositions
• uninformed

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