I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading,… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked… — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries. — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
