Doubt Quote by Frederick Busch

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!”

— Anonymous

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to…

— Noel Coward

A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The…

— George V. Higgins

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned…

— Walt Whitman

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

— Horace

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no…

— Milan Kundera

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not…

— Gertrude Stein

On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the…

— Henry George Bohn

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

— Polykarp Kusch

“And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories.”

— John Steinbeck

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the…

— Jacques Ellul

“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what a rich…

— Gustave Flaubert

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

— Janet Fitch

“(T)his is precisely the importance of the world-view described in the Book of Changes: there is no situation without a way out. All situations…

— Richard and Hellmut Wilhelm

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead