Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • History
  • Together

• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Matter

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Self

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Still

• Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Myself
  • Find

• The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • America
  • History

• I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Character
  • Book
  • Happy

• I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Girl

• Take the Friendmaker, for instance. Oi called 'im that , and now, when people see 'im, they instantly want to be my friend. Those that live, o' course.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Friend
  • Maker

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Strange
  • Worst
  • Comic