« All First Five Quotes
·
Shelby Foote's Page
First Five Quotes by Shelby Foote
1 First Five quote by Shelby Foote
More Quotes by Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...…
-
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or…
-
Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned…
-
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
-
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making…
-
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of…
-
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
-
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about…
-
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find…
-
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality,…
-
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite…
-
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about…
See all 34 quotes by Shelby Foote »
More First Five Quotes
Popular First Five quotes from across the collection:
-
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they…
— Chanakya
-
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
-
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy…
— Jimmy Carr
-
Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He…
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
-
One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first…
— Hillary Clinton
-
Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the…
— Unknown Author
-
If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want…
— Mark Zuckerberg
-
It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether…
— Shemar Moore
-
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
— Kimon Nicolaides
-
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
— August Wilson
-
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
— Bill Gates
-
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a…
— John Lescroart
See all First Five Quotes »
Browse Shelby Foote Quotes by Category