Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it… — Chris Killip Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls'… — Gillian Zinser Copy Share Image
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,… — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it,… — Marguerite Moreau Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there… — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image