M. J. Rose Quotes

I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Never
  • Anything

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Born
  • Genius

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Stock

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Life
  • Live
  • Movie

• If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Success
  • Failure

• Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important

• When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Success
  • Focus