I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was… — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A creative person, a very creative person, is always alone, impatient and frustrated. — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image