Ernest Hemingway Quotes
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Quotes to Explore
-
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
-
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
-
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
-
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
-
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
-
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
-
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
-
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
-
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
-
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
-
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
-
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
-
I think music sharing of any kind is great.
-
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
-
The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
-
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-
I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
-
China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.
-
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.
-
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
