Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
Ray Comfort does it again! With simplicity and keen insight on the streets, he pulls back the curtain of Evolution and reveals… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Everybody has to find it whatever helps. Religion is very helpful for people. A good friend is very helpful. A priest is… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I must say, the people who started this whole Masterclass series have been very helpful and very intelligent to point out certain… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You can educate people about politics, criminality, the law, but not about medicine? It's just silly… I really don't want to hurt… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. — Gyorgy Konrad Copy Share Image
The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Helpful is happy. Selfish is sad. (It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Just from a psychological standpoint, it's really helpful having films with a joyful message and positivity, so we try to do that… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What… — Allan F. Packer Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
One of my greatest struggles is, and has been for a long time, seeing unkindness on this planet. Unkindness and inconsideration. I… — Kelly LeBrock Copy Share Image
Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what… — George Sand Copy Share Image
In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who… — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image