Alexandre Dumas Quotes

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• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  

  Oliver North
  • Writers
  • Readers

• I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Dark

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Know
  • Said

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Know
  • Doing

• Todd and I have a very complementary working style .

  

  Sam Wood
  • Style
  • Working
  • Very

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Society
  • Environmental
  • Finnish

• I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Right
  • Down
  • Holding

• Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Want
  • You
  • New York

• My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Good
  • Father
  • Pretty

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Words
  • Story

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wisdom

• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Real
  • Very
  • Implications

• The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• Modern dancing is old fashioned.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Old
  • Modern
  • Dancing

• I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Wanted

• Actors and burglars work better at night.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Night
  • Actors
  • Burglars

• I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Prayer
  • Gratitude

• My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Mom
  • Haters

• My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Life
  • Child
  • Company

• Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!

  

  Alexandre Dumas