Confucius Quotes

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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• I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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  • Important
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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  

  Pat Morita
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  • Where
  • ERA

• What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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  • Trees
  • Plants

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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  • Art
  • Words

• The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Up
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  • Day

• It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Words

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • World
  • Good
  • House

• I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Why
  • Words

• This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal … and Xenophanes the Athenian … in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.

  

  Polybius
  • Rest

• I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

  

  Kate Horsley
  • World
  • Humans
  • Christ

• Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, 'Black Mirror' likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn't mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Mirror

• LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Good
  • Single

• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Modesty
  • Speaks