Order Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Order Paid Wells Writing
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely;… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
