Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market.… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in. — H. R. Haldeman Copy Share Image
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the… — Dale Jarrett Copy Share Image
