Quotes with well-read

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 1813.

  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
    - +
     0
  • Nora Joyce Why don’t you write books people can read?
    Nora Joyce
     
    - +
     0
  • Albrecht Durer Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
    - +
     0
  • Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
    - +
     0
  • Lucian Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
    Lucian
     
    - +
     0
  • Bryan Fuller With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Wyman With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Brad Meltzer Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
    - +
     0
  • Fran Lebowitz Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
    Source: Metropolitan life
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • José Saramago Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
    - +
     0
  • Joseph Conrad Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Natalie Clifford Barney Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Shields Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Edna Ferber Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
    - +
     0
  • Antonio Perez Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.
    Antonio Perez
    Spanish statesman, secretary King Phillip II (1540 - 1611)
    - +
     0
  • Bai Ling Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
    - +
     0
All well-read famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 87)