The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power… — Damien Broderick Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ.… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
