Quotations
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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 quotes
Reader, I married him.
- Charlotte Bronte quotes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke quotes
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- Joseph Addison quotes
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
- Mary Schmich quotes
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
- Cynthia Heimel quotes
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps quotes
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
- Babe Ruth quotes
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Francis Bacon quotes
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
- Paul Westerberg quotes
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Edmund Burke quotes
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
- Publilius Syrus quotes
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
- Laetitia Casta quotes
Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
- Timothy Dalton quotes
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee quotes
Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
- Howard Dean quotes
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
- Ezra Pound quotes
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
- Doug Larson quotes
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- Alexander Hamilton quotes
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
- Charles Lindbergh quotes
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
- Maria Callas quotes
Real friends stab you in the front
- Oscar Wilde quotes
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
- Euripides quotes
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus quotes
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey quotes
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Wilfred Grenfell quotes
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius quotes
Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.
- Sylvester Stallone quotes
Real pressure in golf is playing for $10 when you've only got $5 in your pocket.
- Lee Trevino quotes
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- Larry Wall quotes
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
- B C Forbes quotes
Realistically it's a very slim chance. But I also know that it's my mindset that'll maybe create that opportunity again. It's like Dumb and Dumber – when the girl says, `You've got a one in a million chance of sleeping with me,' and Jim Carrey says, 'So you're saying I've got a chance' ... I live by that.
- Michael Slater quotes
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
- Fedor Dostoevsky quotes
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
- Graham Greene quotes
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
- Lily Tomlin quotes
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
- Salman Rushdie quotes
Reality is a sliding door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein quotes
Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
- Phillip K Dick quotes
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon quotes
