Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 1813.

  • Arthur Golden You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bess Truman You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • James Thurber You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Sunday You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Napoleon Hill You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Lord Chesterfield You must look into people, as well as at them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • V.S. Naipaul You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Hope You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Ben Horowitz You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Rose Macaulay You should always believe all you read in newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • John Ruskin You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • James Baldwin You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
    Source: Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brian P. Cleary You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Ben Zobrist You want to represent Christ well with doing you job, first and foremost, because that's what you're there to do.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Cassandra Clare You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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