Authors Quotes

523 quotes by 427 authors

Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical… — Jonathan Balcombe
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something.… — Alfred Kazin
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and… — Gilbert N. Lewis
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as… — George Augustus Henry Sala
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the… — Richard Lindzen
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers). — Guy Kawasaki
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors… — Kurt Vonnegut
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm… — Andrea Dworkin
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Christian Nestell Bovee
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors. — Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human… — Washington Irving
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the]… — Billy Graham
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those… — Michael Parenti
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,… — James Madison
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine… — Cole Porter

Who Wrote These Authors Quotes

427 authors contributed a total of 523 Authors Quotes, led by these top contributors: