The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands,… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've… — Al Barr Copy Share Image
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
