Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Liam Gallagher

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Mark Haddon

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Dick Cheney

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

John Nersesian

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

Christopher Nolan

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

James Keller

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

Brenda Ueland

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ...

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Amisha Patel

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Darnell Bing

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

Ludwig von Mises

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Ludwig von Mises

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

Ludwig von Mises

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

Waylon Jennings

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Alfred Verrecchia

The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,

Ann Romney

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

Gore Vidal

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Cassandra Clare

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

Susan Fredericks

We played as a team today. I'm very proud of my boys.

Brad Tingey

We play better with the lead, but I think most teams do. We told our boys that that needed to be our focus ? to get a lead and then try to hold onto it.

Jonas Honick

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

Ted Naifeh

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.