Ernest Hemingway Quotes

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Father

• There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Change

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Sea
  • Japanese
  • Mission

• It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Free
  • Government

• Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Graves
  • World
  • Small
  • Opportunities

• Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Mom

• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Die

• A Loaf holds many grains of corn And many myriad drops the Sea: So is God's Oneness Multitude And that great Multitude are we.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Great
  • God
  • Sea

• A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot

• Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Why
  • Forever
  • Baby

• I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Poetry

• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  

  Joan Didion

• I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • World

• For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.

  

  Bob Tyrrell
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Interests

• A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway