Quotes 101 till 120 of 542.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
E shall continue to do it until God tell us to stop, or until we pass into sin and iniquity, which will never be.
Source: Polygamy Journal of Discourses 12:262 (Aug. 9, 1868) -
Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
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Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
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