John W. Foster Quotes

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

John W. Foster

Quotes to Explore

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

J. Michael Straczynski
- Thinking
- Character
- Worry
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

Karin Slaughter
- Book
- Thought
- Start
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Edmund Burke
- Great
- Nature
- Greatness
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

Edgar Ramirez
- Man
- Hands
- Boxing
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

Sally Hawkins
- Different
- You
- Kind
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

Vikram Patel
- People
- Life
- World