Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson -
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush -
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Vance Joy -
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
Daniel Cudmore -
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube -
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig -
We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
J. K. Simmons -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel
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I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.
Lizzie Armitstead -
In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
David Thewlis -
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
E. M. Delafield -
Not that this appears to affect the intentions of the political-bureaucratic elite, which in Britain as elsewhere in Europe believes that it has an overriding mission to achieve European integration by hook or by crook and which is convinced that History (with an extra-large 'H') is on its side.
Margaret Thatcher -
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere