All Quotes

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
‐‐ Chi Chi Rodriguez

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
‐‐ Ken Stott

I read 'The Hobbit' but not a single one of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life.
‐‐ Matthew Reilly

I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it.
‐‐ Mark Hadlow

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
‐‐ Q-Tip

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

I read the 'New York Post' every day. It keeps me connected to my home town even when I am on the road.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?
‐‐ Joy Behar

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.
‐‐ Steve Breen

I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
‐‐ A. C. Benson

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
‐‐ Ira Glass

I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
‐‐ David Byrne

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
‐‐ Lana Wachowski

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
‐‐ Anne Rice

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.
‐‐ Romola Garai

I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
‐‐ Anna Held

I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
‐‐ Ben Schott

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.
‐‐ Bruce Robinson

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.
‐‐ Dennis Farina

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
‐‐ G-Eazy

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
‐‐ Birdy

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.'
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
‐‐ Philip Kaufman

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.
‐‐ Mark Waters

I read three books a week.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.
‐‐ Roxane Gay