Charles Fort Quotes

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

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• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Food
  • Ship

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Facebook

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Find
  • Look
  • Mirror

• If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

  

  Sade Adu
  • World
  • Food
  • Lost

• Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.

  

  James Mattis
  • World
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • People
  • Fashion

• She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

  

  Geraldine Brooks
  • Like
  • Wings
  • Butterfly

• Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

  

  Nicholas Grimald
  • Treasure
  • Gifts
  • Mortal

• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Happiness
  • Prosperity
  • Intensity

• The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

  

  Charles Fort