I Can Read Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Dirty, Thinking, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1972, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Dirty, Thinking, Ducks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1972, Simon and Schuster

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• Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Mean

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• I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

  Harper Lee

  Needs, I Can Do It, Knows

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.

  Lynne Truss

  Real, Winning, Phones

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• Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sandwiches, Maps, Mixtures

  "There and Back Again…." by Patrick Rothfuss, blog.patrickrothfuss.com. May 4, 2010.

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• however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Class, Waiting, Ambush

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Writing, Cases

  "Atheist Hitchens stares death in the eye". "ABC News" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2011.

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• I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

  Harper Lee

  Bakers, I Can

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

  Alicia Keys

  Sadness, Writing, Want

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• I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

  John Keats

  Reading, Thank God, Depth

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.184, e-artnow

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• That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Blessing, I Can

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Autobiography of Anthony Trollope”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

  Aidan Gillen

  People, Say Anything, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

  Joanna Lumley

  Book, Cat, Good Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

  Katrina Kaif

  Achievement, Language, Speak

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• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Strong, Husband, Home

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  Waris Dirie

  Animal, Long Ago, Hands

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• Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

  Dave Navarro

  Names, Yeah, Chords

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

  Evan Peters

  Book, Two, Acting

  "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Book, Reading, Handbags

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• I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

  Mark Morris

  Growing Up, Singing, Technique

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• I can read your body language like a conversation

  Dom Kennedy

  Body, Language, Conversation

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• A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Bed

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Inspiration, Thinking

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• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Fear, Farewell, Eye

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.94

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