Employed Quote by Lucille Kallen Download Open image “Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.” — Lucille Kallen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Employed Muse Sweat Unemployed Writing
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I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Real writers write. Period. No, the muse does not come to visit everyday. She’s a lazy, precocious flirt. You cannot get into the habit… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows.… — Diane Ruggiero Copy Share Image
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music,… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he… — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited… — Thomas S. Gates Jr Copy Share Image
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image