Ring True Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work;…
— Alan Alda
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The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not…
— T. Coleman du Pont
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The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
— Stephen King
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
— Montserrat Caballe
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Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky…
— Jack Newfield
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Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
— Amy Vanderbilt
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The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest…
— Judith Martin
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Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and…
— Kofi Annan
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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able…
— Walt Disney
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
— Newt Gingrich
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Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing…
— Don Henley
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and…
— Bradley Whitford
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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only…
— H P Lovecraft
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Seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you. Like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear.
— Rise Against
Who Wrote These Ring True Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Ring True Quotes as follows: