Reading Quotes

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.