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1681 Page quotes by 1247 unique authors
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There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
— Chen-Ning Yang
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than…
— A. E. van Vogt
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In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they…
— Evgeny Morozov
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run…
— Robert Macfarlane
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Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
— C.D. Wright
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We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad…
— Unknown Author
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With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in…
— Andy Van Slyke
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to…
— Nicholas Meyer
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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have…
— Kris Radish
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My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
— Colin Greenwood
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TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and…
— Tasha Alexander
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It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do…
— Paul Gallico
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With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
— Melissa Rosenberg
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Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
— Susan Orlean
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving…
— Anne Tyler
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
— Taiye Selasi
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
— Taiye Selasi
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Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
— Art Buchwald
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With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle…
— Dani Shapiro
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I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the…
— Vaclav Klaus
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Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
— Timothy McVeigh
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
— Dani Shapiro
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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at…
— Richard Stallman
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As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power…
— Unknown Author
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