Folks Quote by Sam Wyly Download Open image “I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.” — Sam Wyly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folks Lines Long Newspapers People Ran Writing
I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days. — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing. — Kyle Korver Copy Share Image
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists. — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall Street Journal.' I wrote longer pieces, and I got tired of working so hard on stories that had a shelf life of essentially one day. So then I started working on longer magazine pieces and realized then that… — Erik Larson Copy Share
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time.… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like. — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters. — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton Copy Share
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
![“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b92/george-mason-8435_bedfellows_this-cold-weather-has-set-all-the-young_3953.jpg)
