Ernest Hemingway Quotes

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

• Writing
• Feels
• Simplicity
• Aim
• Paper
• Simplest

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• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Health

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

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

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Pictures

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• 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

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Goal
  • Childhood
  • Them

• No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Bible

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Political
  • Never
  • Agenda

• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • People
  • Knew
  • Stupidest Thing

• Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

  

  Confucius
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Ideas

• It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Want

• Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• I want to date Cheryl Cole. She is a looker, she's the one. I love her accent, its so sexy. She's free and I'm still a bachelor. That girl is so beautiful, Ill treat her well. I'm thinking weddings one day, why not? Just think of the kids. I'm getting ahead of myself here, I haven't even met the girl.

  

  Chace Crawford
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Simplicity