Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Richard Baxter

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...

Rex Reed

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

Rebecca West

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Rebecca West

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

Rebecca West

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Rebecca West

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Michael Luxner

There are so many pianists that play so well. Once they're at that level, the judging is so subjective.

Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Travis Pastrana

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.

W. H. Auden

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

Wilkie Collins

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Tracey Emin

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Samuel Johnson

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Samuel Johnson

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Rowan Williams

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Frank Langella

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Edward Albee

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Charlie Munger

The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Rick Riordan

Bad Cyclops Lady!" he bellowed. "General Tyson says GO AWAY!

Roger Federer

Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Starhawk

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

Rupert Friend

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

Ray Bradbury

My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!