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

• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Friends
  • True
  • Friend

• 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 was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Police
  • Crime
  • Committed

• Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • Book

• 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