Quotes with book-making

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1038.

  • William Hazlitt The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Russell Lynes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Beth Broderick The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • John Lennon The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Agatha Christie The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Anita Diamant The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Anita Desai The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Philip Roth The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Frank Crane The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Paul Auster The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
    Source:  (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Jim Rohn The book you don't read won't help.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bernadette Peters The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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