Richard Rhodes Quotes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

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• I get more tired by travelling than anything.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Tired
  • More
  • Travelling

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Like
  • Always
  • Someone

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Different
  • Together
  • Animal

• If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Succeed

• I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Reading

• The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Lawlessness

• Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Worst

• I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Language
  • Fight
  • Treasures

• I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
  • Part
  • Tribute

• Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

  

  Michael D. Higgins
  • Time
  • Wisdom
  • Comfort

• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Conversation
  • Heard
  • Material

• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Passion

• The police have almost no protected vehicles, few heavy weapons similar to those of insurgents, are often located in extremely vulnerable buildings, and have weak communications. Corruption is a major issue.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • Police
  • Corruption
  • Issue

• Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

  

  Richard Rhodes
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