I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
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Related I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres... ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page. AUGUSTINE There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ... G. K. CHESTERTON Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh... ASHISH KUMAR There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man w... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh... G.K. CHESTERTON All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ... SANELA RAMIC JURICH I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ... AMY TAN I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did. VIKRANT PARSAI I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though... GAYLE FORMAN Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ... RANDY PAUSCH The book is about following the rules. And after I read the book, I let each of them come up with a ... ALICE WHITE Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anythin... CORNELIA FUNKE Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. LEMONY SNICKET Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them LEMONY SNICKET My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of... LORDE My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. SAMUEL BUTLER The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much... NORMAN COUSINS You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w... JUNOT DIAZ The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. JACKIE COLLINS The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a yea... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book.... VIRGINIA MADSEN Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check ... DEYTH BANGER There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story,... CARLTON CUSE The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows lik... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is transla... RALPH WALDO EMERSON [A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told th... TRACY HICKMAN What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more ab... BRENT WEEKS Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. TIM BURTON Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one flee... DAVID QUAMMEN The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t re... PAUL AUSTER There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the ... FRANK SERAFINI When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f... MADISON PETTIS There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor... STEPHEN KING Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it car... CATHERINE LOWELL [D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a libra... NEIL GAIMAN I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i... RACHEL TUCKER and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No... CHARLES DICKENS One half who graduate from college never read another book. HERBERT TRUE One half who graduate from college never read another book. G. M. TREVELYAN Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu... JACK GANTOS I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not goo... BAZ LUHRMANN The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. SAINT AUGUSTINE The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. SAINT AUGUSTINE Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau... STEVE TOLTZ I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT These juveniles are capable of success like anybody else. If they find something to read that really... DENNIS COTTRELL The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them MARK TWAIN There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely... LYNN COADY Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o... AVI I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea... BARBARA BUSH I have no idea whether anyone will have any desire to read it. Will people who don't know me at all ... JUSTIN TUSSING I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... RICHARD DAWKINS You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. R... EMMA BRYNSTEIN One thing I wanted to make sure is that this is the kids' book club. They get to choose the books th... CHARITY HEGNA No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. CHARLES DICKENS Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so ... BILLE AUGUST Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in wh... GEORGE GURDJIEFF Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wante... KEITH BEAUCHAMP I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who wri... EDDIE TRUNK I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade... A. S. BYATT I get email from people who say, 'We read your book 20 years ago and it really helped us. DAVID REUBEN I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply to... MEG ROSOFF The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. MARK TWAIN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that... HUEY NEWTON Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use." "And that's ... AGATHA CHRISTIE The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me and I know it re... OPRAH WINFREY Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th... MICHAEL KORYTA I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w... GLEN DUNCAN The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. CARLO GOLDONI Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo... GEORGE W. S. TROW I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness... NATALIE GOLDBERG Anyone who has sat down intending to read through the entire Bible can attest to the difficulty. We ... JEFF CAVINS Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ... MARY ROACH The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, whi... UMBERTO ECO To deliberately damage or harm any holy book, any book really for that matter is wrong. They are rec... NOLAN BANKS For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people deter... WALTER LIPPMANN My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no chi... ALAN GARNER There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the... STEPHEN KING I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al... ― LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is al... LOVE THE STACKS BOOKSTORE He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and bo... JOHN CONNOLLY Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never read any book that is not a year old. RALPH WALDO EMERSON I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass the... WILL SCHWALBE My hope is that when people first see the cover, they won't understand what they are seeing. Then, o... CHIP KIDD I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re... RICHARD K. MORGAN It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really ... MARY ANN SHAFFER Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I m... MAX BARRY The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'... ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team. OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen. OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit... OSCAR ROBERTSON But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them. OSCAR ROBERTSON You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think ... OSCAR ROBERTSON You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a ... OSCAR ROBERTSON This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll... OSCAR ROBERTSON But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players wh... OSCAR ROBERTSON Basketball is basketball. OSCAR ROBERTSON You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot you... OSCAR ROBERTSON Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars. OSCAR ROBERTSON I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. OSCAR ROBERTSON You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick... OSCAR ROBERTSON When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing agains... OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are... OSCAR ROBERTSON When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do... OSCAR ROBERTSON It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to ... OSCAR ROBERTSON You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the co... OSCAR ROBERTSON It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co... OSCAR ROBERTSON I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the y... OSCAR ROBERTSON I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away. PAT ROBERTSON I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State... PAT ROBERTSON But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga... PAT ROBERTSON God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G... PAT ROBERTSON In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything. PAT ROBERTSON It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. PAT ROBERTSON I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss. PAT ROBERTSON Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s... PAT ROBERTSON I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ... PAT ROBERTSON The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ... PAT ROBERTSON The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from... PAT ROBERTSON I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the... PAT ROBERTSON It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of... PAT ROBERTSON I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n... PAT ROBERTSON Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy... PAT ROBERTSON The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca... PAT ROBERTSON Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop... PAT ROBERTSON People who hate God... take it out on innocent people. PAT ROBERTSON I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro... PAT ROBERTSON Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban... PAT ROBERTSON I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. PAT ROBERTSON My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don... PHIL ROBERTSON The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He... ROBBIE ROBERTSON My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k... KAY ROBERTSON Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would sup... SI ROBERTSON If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles... PHIL ROBERTSON Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and peopl... DALE ROBERTSON An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse... DALE ROBERTSON Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex... PHIL ROBERTSON When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an ev... SI ROBERTSON Music should never be harmless. ROBBIE ROBERTSON Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. JEANNE ROBERTSON "How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Sa... PAT ROBERTSON Feminism is the radical notion that women are people PAT ROBERTSON What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som... SI ROBERTSON I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, le... ROBBIE ROBERTSON Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things... PAT ROBERTSON When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,... ROBBIE ROBERTSON In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. ROBBIE ROBERTSON Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great ... OSCAR ROBERTSON We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu... PHIL ROBERTSON I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat... PHIL ROBERTSON It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control. SI ROBERTSON Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i... PHIL ROBERTSON Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i... ROBBIE ROBERTSON I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America... PAT ROBERTSON Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. PAT ROBERTSON I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act... BRITT ROBERTSON People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. ROBBIE ROBERTSON He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ... 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BERNARD ROBERTSON Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make. BERNARD ROBERTSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? PAT ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs... BETH ROBERTSON After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha... BETH ROBERTSON There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall... BETH ROBERTSON One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States. BETH ROBERTSON At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen... BETH ROBERTSON It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years.... 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