Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Trying
  • Freedom
  • Creativity

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Together
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Same

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Up
  • Men
  • Night

• Why didn’t you say that’s what you were planning in the first place?” Vaughn smiled. “Because, Doctor, when they make you a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Head
  • Commander
  • First Place

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Help
  • Personality

• I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Blue

• The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Man
  • Eye