Author Quotes

1140 quotes by 867 authors

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting… — Thomas Jefferson
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way… — Warren G. Bennis
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! — Thomas Pynchon
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in… — Aberjhani
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. — Edward Gibbon
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. — Seneca the Elder
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis de Sade
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. — Thomas Sydenham
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness… — Gottfried Leibniz
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and… — Alexander Pope
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin

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