Quotes 81 till 100 of 555.
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Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43 -
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
Faceboek (2012) -
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
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