Quotes with writer-stop

Quotes 441 till 460 of 542.

  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Source: Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Dave Thomas There's no one to stop you but yourself.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Ben Katchor There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Barry Switzer They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Billie Holiday They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Billie Holliday They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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  • Bill Rancic This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • André Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Elbert Hubbard To stop sinning suddenly.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aaron Copland To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Allen Klein Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Anthony Doerr Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Woody Guthrie Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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