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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not… — Ernest Hemingway
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon
I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like… — Dolly Parton
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions. — Robert Doisneau
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's… — Jimmy Carter
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not… — Martin Luther
There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not… — C.S. Lewis
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry
Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to… — Clement Freud
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly,… — Yoshida Kenko
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter
I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am… — Eric Asimov
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say. — Eugene H. Peterson
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to lie about who… — Tammy Baldwin

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