Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Allison

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Ernest Hemingway

The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.

You can't grasp it. It's not life or death, but it's damn near close. You invest so much into this program and the winning, to have a loss in your home stadium in front of your family, in front of your friends, it hurts." ()

Rex Stout

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Richard M. Nixon

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

Wanda Sykes

Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'

Stephenie Meyer

So eager for eternal damnation.

Tim Robbins

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

Simone Weil

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.