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 ...

Jean de la Bruyere

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Alan Cohen

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Alan Cohen

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Alan Cohen

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Dean Stanley

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Banksy

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Martha Beck

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Patrick Whitesell

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Ludwig von Mises

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Gregory Maguire

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Ian McLagan

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

Questlove

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Satyajit Ray

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Joanna Newsom

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.