Mark Helprin Quotes

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

Mark Helprin

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• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Education
  • Finish
  • Homeless

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Rest
  • Appetite
  • Regaining

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It's a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I'd just as well not bother.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Family
  • Job
  • Project

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Anger

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• Freedom is for fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.

  

  Mario J. Molina
  • Science

• At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Prayer
  • Almighty God
  • King Solomon

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Great
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

  

  David Mitchell
  • World

• Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

  

  Mark Helprin