Henrik Ibsen Quotes

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Write

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Different
  • Why
  • Better

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Imagination
  • Lies
  • Creative

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Write
  • Before

• Meadows trim, with daisies pied,Shallow brooks, and rivers wide;Towers and balements it seesBosomed high in tufted trees,Where perhaps some beauty lies,The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

  

  John Milton
  • High
  • Eyes
  • Lies

• Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Murder

• When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Work
  • Book
  • Wish

• I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.

  

  Mark Billingham

• How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Monster

• If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Lies
  • Write
  • Humbug