Pages Quotes
2126 Pages quotes by 1519 unique authors
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In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.
— Edmond Jabes
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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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It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human…
— Igor Sikorsky
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Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste…
— Patricia Gaffney
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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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This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and…
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
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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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Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book…
— Debra Ginsberg
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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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It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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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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In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of…
— Jane Yolen
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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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