Quotes about american-author
american-author cultivated neither nor saying until whom word
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. Napoleon Hill
american-author man mind
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. Anthony Bourdain
american-author
I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders. Vincent Bugliosi
american-author trying
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
american-author cases court felony jury lost successful trials
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
american-author close court insane pick supreme whether won
If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
american-author care falls human life played quiet till
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. William Temple
american-author beauty destroy discourage unless using
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
american-author great
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
american-author bred easily man men
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
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The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
american-author best folly wisdom worst
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
american-author cannot creature neither nor receiving sensible
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
american-author hard
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
american-author conversation factors
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
american-author bother decided people share time wonder
People were going to wonder about me, about who I am and what makes me tick, and with time I decided that it didn't really bother me to share that. David Guterson
american-author knew line man occurred written
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand
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Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.
american-author cannot care course interested music performed
Of course I do care about the way my music is performed and so I cannot really say that I am not interested in how it is received.
american-author course enjoy examples great
Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it. Robert Fitzgerald
american-author battered family musical played possess
No one in the family played a musical instrument, we did not even possess one between us, all we had was a battered old gramophone, a 1920s model.
american-author confront list
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies
american-author hoping riding since time written
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. Lynn Abbey
american-author highest
The highest qualities of character... must be earned. Lyman Abbott
american-author life virtue
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
american-author finding game literary
But it's not just a game of finding literary references. Dan Simmons
american-author form modern rule
Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Mary McCarthy
american-author start
But at my age, you start to get tired. Mickey Spillane
american-author fan father full house looked major sf start
My father was a major SF fan in the '40s and '50s, so the house was full of SF books. That's where I got my start and I never looked back. Sarah Zettel