Acclaimed Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
— Moliere
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information…
— Robert Wright
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Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your…
— Samuel Warren Carey
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Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America…
— Aberjhani
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and…
— Armond White
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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year…
— Wallace Thurman
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I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many people have written,…
— Zach Braff
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Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's…
— Ben Hecht
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With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to…
— Will Schwalbe
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
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When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
— Jack Smith
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I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
— Akshay Kumar
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There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment,…
— Ella Baker
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Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have…
— Clement Greenberg
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
— Albert Einstein
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It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing…
— Karen Russell
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The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly…
— Martin Filler
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And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically…
— Meg Cabot
Who Wrote These Acclaimed Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 26 Acclaimed Quotes, led by these top contributors: