Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Idea
  • Vague

• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Good
  • Action
  • Day

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• There's always merit to having a debate.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Always
  • Debate
  • Merit

• They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Pain
  • Write

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Literature

• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Women
  • School
  • High

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Business
  • House
  • Running

• The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ocean

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Fighting
  • Act

• Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Daily

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

  

  Dan Coats
  • History
  • Action
  • Air

• I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking
  • Source
  • Satan

• Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Society
  • Political
  • Simple

• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Power
  • Attitude

• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Firsts
  • Negative
  • Sentences