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

• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• 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

• Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Hockey

• Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lyrics

• I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

  

  Lisa Papademetriou
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

  

  Jim Lampley
  • Why
  • She
  • August

• I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Family
  • Power
  • Hand

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Talent