Quotes with well-read

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1813.

  • Seneca I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anthony Hope I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Jane Austen I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Source: Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Toni Morrison I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Barbara Kruger I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Andy Warhol I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bernard Beckett I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • B. D. Wong I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Goldie Hawn I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
    Goldie Hawn
    American actress (1945 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Manning I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
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