Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Stephen Jay Gould

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

David Weinberger

Transparency is the new objectivity

Pamela Stephenson

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

William Shakespeare

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.