John Aubrey Quotes

Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.

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• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.

  

  Dana Perino
  • House
  • Night
  • Day

• As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Change
  • Software
  • Digital

• I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Rock
  • Road

• I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

  

  Laura Bush
  • America
  • Think
  • Media

• As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Want
  • Control
  • Employees

• One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Advice
  • Flaws
  • Biggest

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Guardian
  • Chemist
  • Perchance

• See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Go

• There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Alone
  • Simple
  • Practice

• Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Confident
  • Athletes

• Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Country
  • Greatest

• I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Up
  • Years
  • Here

• Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Experience
  • Hand

• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Worst
  • Apologize
  • Concede

• I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Country
  • Want
  • Path

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Achieve

• Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Creative
  • Attractive
  • Spending

• Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.

  

  John Aubrey