Essays Quotes
199 quotes by 179 authors
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
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I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
— Tom Bodett
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
— Alain de Botton
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be…
— Lenny Bruce
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided…
— Jarvis Cocker
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For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
— Diablo Cody
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the…
— Sam Abell
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,…
— Maya Angelou
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
— Maya Angelou
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
— Alan Blinder
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We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of…
— John Dalton
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The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was…
— Gloria Estefan
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
— David Foster Wallace
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Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
— Emilia Clarke
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Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing…
— Israel Gelfand
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Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely…
— Arthur Kleinman
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I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved…
— Diane Cilento
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
— Thucydides
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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
— Thucydides
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