Frank Knight Quotes
Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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Harry Dresden: You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
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As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
