Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Important
  • Why
  • Think

• Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Ancestors

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

  Gail Devers
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Effort

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Trying
  • Technology

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Great
  • Long
  • Writing

• I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Me
  • Find

• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Lonely
  • Stature