The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people
I've had a lot of things written about me, both positive and negative.Quote by Kim Basinger about things
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.Quote by Michael Bolton about common sense, things
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.Quote by Aristotel about law
The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.Quote by George W. Bush about history
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.Quote by Michael Caine about bad luck, bad, wife
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.Quote by Taylor Caldwell about medicine
On a more practical level, what it takes to succeed is to be self-critical enough to learn from your errors, but confident enough (arrogant enough? ) to decide that what you've got is good enough to write and, having written, good enough to send...Quote by Orson Scott about error, good, good luck, self-control
I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.Quote by Michael Chabon about searching, war, people
I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.Quote by Hanns Eisler about music, human imperfections, life
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.Quote by Jackie Collins about love, books, writing, people
I'm starting to work with durations again, trying to organise them in a completely aleatoric way interms of the composition; it's all written out, but the compositional information is all generated by chance.Quote by Luc Ferrari about chance, work
I actually encountered the written dharma, and I met a teacher. Before that, I was engaged in philosophical pursuit in school.Quote by Richard Gere about teachers, school
He wrote, You are a very good director, son, and I love you very much. Your dad. He had never used those words with me before. I passed that letter around the company. For without the company, the letter would never have been written.Quote by Peter Fonda about companies, good, good luck, love
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.Quote by Salma Hayek about sex, character, film