Authors Quotes
523 quotes by 427 authors
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who…
— Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to…
— Franz Grillparzer
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I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of…
— E. Nesbit
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Christian socialismâ€). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
— Tim O'Reilly
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There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
— Tim O'Reilly
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Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a…
— Brian Solis
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With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international…
— Achim Steiner
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The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made…
— Douglas Davis
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
— John McAfee
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An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in…
— Leon G. Cooperman
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at…
— Gavyn Davies
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of…
— Jane Porter
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For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves…
— James Trefil
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Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and…
— Jason Ellis
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
— Isaac Newton
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The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.
— Sarah Zettel
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
— Bergen Evans
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