Read Quotes

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If you read, you will transform your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If Christian, we open the Holy Bible. And read, they shall grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can read the word of God, but without mediation and prayer, we become spiritually weak and unfilled.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

~ Jay Kristoff

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.

~ Dani J. Caile

The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul.

~ Moosa Rahat

If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read I love you.

~ Jenim Dibie

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

~ George R.r. Martin

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

~ Margaret Fuller

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

~ Christian Bauman

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

~ Terry Pratchett

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

~ Laini Taylor

Reading to small children is a specialty.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give permission to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.

~ Mildred Armstrong Kalish

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

~ Jazz Feylynn

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

If you read, you shall renew your mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

~ Laini Taylor

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

~ Kamand Kojouri

I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

~ Daniel Keyes

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I don't trust people without books or questions.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

~ Irvine Welsh

Growing up in the digital age, I'm expected to embrace all forms of modern technology with blissful ignorance. Books were always one of few escapes from this, because reading a book means not having to look at another damned glowing screen - which is why, no matter how convenient or enhanced digital enthusiasts claim that Ebooks are, I'll never see them as real books. They're just files of binary data, and while they might be considered books by a large amount of people, Ebooks have lost the human quality that real books have. You can argue that this is pretentious or stupid or nostalgic, but ultimately what will you pass down to your children and grandchildren? A broken old Kindle device with the same files that millions of other people have, or the dog-eared paperbacks that you fell in love with and wrote your name in and got signed by the author and flipped through in the bookstore and kept with you for years, like an old friend?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Read every day and learn from what you read.

~ Octavia E. Butler

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems.

~ Genesis Quihuis