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

• 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
  • Free
  • Political
  • Government

• 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

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

  

  Walter Scott
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Die

• 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

• Everything in life is luck.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Luck

• When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Country

• I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Career

• I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

  

  Luke Treadaway
  • Music
  • Night

• And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Up
  • October

• The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Society
  • Political
  • Control

• Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

  

  Neil MacGregor

• The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

  

  Alfred Polgar
  • Requires
  • Aphorism
  • Aphorist

• My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • War
  • Fall

• As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

  

  Louis XIV
  • God
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• 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