Reads Quotes

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. - Lord Byron

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. - Mark Haddon

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community. - John Swanson

You look at the salary cap spreadsheets that you're handed, yeah, you know the inevitable is going to happen. When you're $20 million to $30 million over, whatever it is, you've got to get under the cap. - Jon Gruden

You know, I can't really say it, what (Porter) says before games. You'll hear anything out of Joey, he'll say anything. He's got to pick a fight to get going, that's just him. He gets fired up. . . . I think that spreads to everybody. - Casey Hampton

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. - Ernest Hemingway

You know one thing, he's definitely had a lot of experience. Playing in a Super Bowl, playing in the league so many years, he knows how to deal with crowd noise and he knows the offense. He knows all the reads. I just hope he can go out there and lead us to a win. - Darren Sharper

You had the credit spreads in the late '90s really widen out, which is not happening here. We're not at that point. - Paul Miller