His Work Quotes
549 His Work quotes by 422 unique authors
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen…
— Willa Cather
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped…
— Samuel Goldwyn
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Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
— Anatole Broyard
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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
— Mark Twain
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There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
— Wendell Berry
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,…
— Cyril Connolly
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If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
— Benito Perez Galdos
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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his…
— George MacDonald
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts…
— William Matthews
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
— Oswald Chambers
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is…
— Anthony Trollope
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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
— Robert Browning
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I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first…
— William Carey
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People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,…
— Freddie Mercury
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A man's perfection is his work.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as…
— Adolf Hitler
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The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
— Napoleon Hill
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans,…
— Tom Scharpling
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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed…
— Barney Rosset
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Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political…
— Unknown Author
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