All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step - Paulo Coelho Beside her, Oliver is craning his neck to read the signs for customs, already thinking about the next thing, already moving on. Because that's what you do in planes. You share an armrest with someone for a few hours. You exchange stories about your life, an amusing anecdote or two, maybe even a joke. You comment on the weather and remark about the terrible food. And then you say goodbye. - Jennifer E Smith I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. - Eve Ensler He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. - J K Rowling

Read my lips: no new taxes. - George H W Bush It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.. - Brandon Mull

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. - Gwendolyn Brooks Brian held up the three centermost fingers of his right hand. Read between the lines, asshole. - Olivia Cunning I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' "I don't want anything to happen to you," he said urgently. "What you want does not matter here," I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I'll kill you. - James Patterson Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would know, that he'd be able to read between the lines and understand, but what if he hadn't? SHould she say more? But how much more? - Stacia Kane I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, an...

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. - Thomas Bowdler We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. - Beverly Cleary I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. - Roald Dahl I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. - Bob Edwards If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman I love to read aloud. - Cornelia Funke Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of bett...

She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives. - Jane Austen You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. - Giovanni Boccaccio Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. -Daine - Tamora Pierce Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. - Emile M Cioran I must read. I must read. I must read. - Mark Z Danielewski Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair ...

It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks? - Cassandra Clare And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time. - Cassandra Clare I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid. - M T Anderson If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray,...

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. - Mortimer Adler How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do. - Harold Bloom One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life. - Harold Bloom As an addict who will read anything,...