Ernest Quotes

38 Ernest quotes by 31 unique authors

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the… — Unknown Author
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and… — Ian Wooldridge
Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine! — George Carlin
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. — Nadine Gordimer
I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand. — Kurt Vonnegut
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. — Jim Harrison
The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. — Elizabeth Olsen
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine. — Al Yankovic
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway.… — Dree Hemingway
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which… — John Krasinski
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing.… — Robert Silverberg
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. — A. E. Hotchner
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection… — Romulus Linney
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henny Youngman
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I… — Irvin D. Yalom
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling,… — Ernest Hemingway
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph… — Roald Dahl
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces… — Oscar Wilde
Veronica ran out to tell Amber the shocking news - and returned in less than a minute with another message for Yo-Yoji: "Amber says she… — Pseudonymous Bosch
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort… — Kami Garcia

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