Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Ernest Hemingway

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

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

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

  

  Iman
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Job
  • Jesus
  • Hero

• Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Luck

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• ... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

  

  William Booth
  • Men
  • Army
  • Clean

• Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Talent