Ernest Dimnet Quotes

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

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• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • First
  • Wanted
  • Just

• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Why
  • Always

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Bike

• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Dance
  • Stars
  • Bird

• I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

  

  Camila Alves
  • American
  • Like
  • Now

• Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another. (II)

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • She
  • Eyes

• I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

  

  Alber Elbaz

• The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • People
  • Good

• I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different

• Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Live
  • Heaven

• I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • City

• Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

  

  Harry Morgan
  • Actor
  • Television
  • Hollywood

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

  

  Anne Fadiman
  • Life
  • World
  • Book

• Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Book
  • House
  • Night

• Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
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  • Life Is Too Short