Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for…

“In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain…

— Dale Carnegie

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any…

— William James

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

— James Weldon Johnson

“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no…

— Mark Ruffalo

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

— Vernon Johns

“with her own life. And I was ashamed.” Humiliated. Broken. Miserable. If Wilcher had stood by Jaymee, if her father hadn’t berated her, if…

— Stacy Green

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

— Mike Huckabee

You never meet the writer when you're making a TV movie in America - they're too ashamed to show up and see how their…

— Joe Don Baker

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

— Robert Preston

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie