Quotes about reading

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

Ronald Reagan

I don’t have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn’t a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

Quentin Tarantino

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

Will Rogers

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Steve Pavlina

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

John Ruskin

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I read the Bible – every goddamn day.

George S. Patton

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

John Wayne

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That’s beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it’s read.

Will Rogers