„We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.“

„I can read his lips, and he is not praying.“

—  Keith Olbermann American sports and political commentator 1959

Catch Phrases
Источник: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases

„No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.“

—  Peter Ackroyd English author 1949

Chatterton (London: Abacus, [1987] 1991), ch. 10, p. 151.

„If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.“

—  Brian Tracy American motivational speaker and writer 1944

„It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original - with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.“

—  Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993

Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

„But my father he didn’t read moon, he didn’t speak moon, and he didn’t write moon. So there was no letter found next to his body in the garage when he chose to leave this place on purpose without saying where he was goin’ or why. There are still days you can catch me tape-recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room just so I can listen to his dying wish. Shh.“

—  Buddy Wakefield American poet 1974

Human the Death Dance
Poetry

„Goethe said, “The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing”; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: “I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.”“

—  Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965

These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 13
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)

„Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Источник: The Final Warning

„One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.“

—  Robertson Davies, книга A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

„Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.“

—  Raymond Carver American short story author and poet 1938 - 1988

„With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.“

—  Ezra Pound American Imagist poet and critic 1885 - 1972

„But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: "Yo, Shakespeare's dope."“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

„Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892

The Flower; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„I had all but decided to take a break and do some plays, and to see plays and read books and not work – literally not work – until I was going to burn for something.“

—  Tessa Thompson American actresse 1983

On turning down the roles Hollywood was offering to her in “Tessa Thompson: ‘I decided not to work until I burned for something’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/16/tessa-thompson-interview-decided-not-to-work-until-i-burned-for-something in The Guardian (2018 Feb 16)

„We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.“

—  B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990

As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73

„In the "fall of Adam" we must see, not the personal transgression of man, but simply the law of the dual evolution. Adam, or "Man," begins his career of existences by dwelling in the garden of Eden, "dressed in the celestial garment, which is a garment of heavenly light" (Sohar, ii., 229 b); but when expelled he is "clothed" by God, or the eternal law of Evolution or necessarianism, with coats of skin. But even on this earth of material degradation — in which the divine spark (Soul, a corruscation of the Spirit) was to begin its physical progression in a series of imprisonments from a stone up to a man's body — if he but exercise his WILL and call his deity to his help, man can transcend the powers of the angel. "Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" asks Paul (1 Corinthians, vi. 3). The real man is the Soul (Spirit), teaches the Sohar. "The mystery of the earthly man is after the mystery of the heavenly man… the wise can read the mysteries in the human face"“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled

ii., 76 a
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter VI

„Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the point of disbelief. And if man in his current predicament seeks a fair mystique to see him through, then I can only suggest that he consider his genes. For they are marked. They are graven by luck beyond explanation. They are stamped by forces that we shall never know. But even so, in the hieroglyph of the human emergence certain symbols must stand for all to read: Change is the elixir of the human circumstance, and acceptance of challenge the way of our kind. We are bad-weather animals, disaster’s fairest children. For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.“

—  Robert Ardrey, книга African Genesis

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man (1961)

„It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.“

—  Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

As quoted by Ambassador Cameron R. Hume in a speech on U.S. Government Initiatives in South Africa http://pretoria.usembassy.gov/wwwhambhume020918.html at the American Chamber of Commerce, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 September 2002).
2000s
Контексте: Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.

„Why read the crystal when he can read the book?“

—  Aneurin Bevan Welsh politician 1897 - 1960

Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 468, col. 319.
Speech in the House of Commons, 29 September 1949.
1940s
Контексте: It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire (Mr. Boothby) that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in Britain. Why on earth should he want to prophesy what might result from a Tory Government when history has the record for him? Why read the crystal when he can read the book?

„I felt something like the man on the resurrection morning who was reading his own tombstone and said either someone is an awful liar or I'm in the wrong hole.“

—  Tommy Douglas Scottish-born Canadian politician 1904 - 1986

August 3,1961, NDP Leadership Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFmD3U2s7tI.