Carl Sandburg Quotes
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.Carl Sandburg
Quotes to Explore
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad -
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Patrick Marber -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery -
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
Madchen Amick
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen -
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone -
The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
Rachelle Lefevre -
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton -
There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
Sam Altman -
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
A. E. van Vogt -
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen -
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
Ralph Waite -
Thinking differently is my strength.
Carine Roitfeld -
When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
Haley Bennett
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw -
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
Madeleine Peyroux -
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare -
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg