Here
are some
of my favorite quotes (DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER FAVORITE QUOTATIONS NOT
LISTED HERE?):
NEW
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
— Abraham Lincoln
SPOTLIGHT
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
WRITING
AND EDITING
"Get
it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can
do anything really good."
— William
Faulkner
"
"You
can't blame the writer for what the characters say."
—
Truman
Capote
"You
need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has to his."
—
Ernest
Hemingway
"The
scariest moment is always just before you start."
—
Stephen
King
"Start
writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is
turned on."
— Louis
L'Amour
"Don't
be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in
hand."
— Henry
Miller
"Go
to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way
down."
— Ray
Bradbury
"You
want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day — so
start writing."
— Shonda
Rhomes
"Write
what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what
you're afraid to write about."
— Cec
Murphy
"You
can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
—
Jack London
"Don't
wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must
know it has got to get down to work."
— Pearl
S. Buck
"I
always know the ending; that's where I start."
— Toni
Morrison
"The
point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind."
— John
Gregory Dunne
"Before
you can write anything, you have to notice something."
—
John
Irving
"Amateurs
sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to
work."
— Stephen
King
"Writing
a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It
helps if you have a plan and a course laid out."
— John
Gardner
"You
don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to
be great."
— Les
Brown
"If
you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter."
—
Anonymous
"If
you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
—
Martin
Luther
"All
my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write."
—
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
"You
don't find time to write. You make time."
— Nora
Roberts
"The
one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my
writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
—
Anne
Tyler
"There
is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You
never quite know where they'll take you."
— Beatrix
Potter
“The
road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
— Stephen
King
"The
most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and
familiar things new."
—
S.
Johnson
"Quantity
produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
— Ray
Bradbury
"Don't
tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken
glass."
—
Anton
Chekhov
"Success
comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always
something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to
which he has climbed."
— P.G.
Wodehouse
“It's
none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them
think you were born that way.”
―
Ernest
Hemingway
"My
advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer,
you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to
get an idea."
— Andy
Rooney
M
"It
is perfectly okay to write garbage, as long as you edit brilliantly."
—
C.J.
Cherryh
M
"You
can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a
shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes
this one different."
— Neil
Gaiman
"Talent
is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential."
—
Jessamyn
West
M
"I
lived to write and wrote to live."
—
Samuel
Rogers
"Write
while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of
his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He
cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
—
Henry
David Thoreau
"Authors
with a mortgage never get writer's block."
—
Mavis
Cheek
"Eight
hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, that's the only
way I know how to do it."
—
Philip
Roth,
on writing
"Talent
is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual
from the successful one is hard work."
—
Stephen
King
PROFOUND
"If you wait, all you get is older."
— Mario Andretti
"A man who has no imagination has no wings."
“Anything
that one man can imagine, another man can make real.”
—
Jules
Verne
"The
two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the
day you find out why."
—
Mark
Twain
"Talk
low, talk slow and don't say too much."
—
John
Wayne
"I
would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light."
—
Helen
Keller
"If
a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
—
Benjamin
Franklin
"You
cannot travel the path until you have become the path."
—
Buddha
“You’ve
got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the
way down.”
— Ray
Bradbury
"Just
don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is
love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
—
Ella
Fitzgerald
"A
threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.''
—
Martin
Luther King Jr.
"My
favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that
the most precious resource we all have is time."
—
Steve
Jobs
"Some
men see things as they are and say 'Why?'
I
dream things that never were and say 'Why not'?"
—
George
Bernard Shaw
"Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us."
—
Marianne
Williamson
(providing one of the great quotes of all time)
"Time
is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you
can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other
people spend it for you."
—
Carl
Sandburg
"You
can't wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club."
—
Jack
London
m
"The
only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment."
—
Tony
Robbins
"I
realized that, if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than
airplanes."
—
Charles
Lindbergh
"You
don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to
stop reading them."
—
Ray
Bradbury
m
"If
you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He
gave it to."
—
Dorothy
Parker
M
"Our
attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
—
Earl
Nightingale
SPORTS
"It's
hard to beat a person who never gives up."
—
Babe
Ruth
"I'm
throwing just as hard as I ever did. The ball's just not getting
there as fast."
— Lefty
Gomez,
the baseball hall of famer, who retired at the age of 35
"I've
always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."
—
Hakeem
Olajuwon
"Sports
do not build character. They reveal it.”
—
John
Wooden
M
"The
other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
—
Yogi
Berra
"Baseball
is like driving; it's the one who gets home safely that counts."
—
Tommy
Lasorda
x
"The
difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's
determination."
—
Tommy
Lasorda
"Baseball
is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a
pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you
like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
—
James
Patrick Murray
<m
"It
ain't braggin' if ya can back it up."
—
Dizzy
Dean
M
“If
you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of
lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.”
—
Lee
Trevino
“Winning
is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and
war."
—
Al
McGuire
"It's
what you learn after you know it all that counts."
—
John
Wooden
"You
cannot compare me to my father. Our similarities are different."
—
Dale
Berra
"If
you're in control, you're not going fast enough."
—
Parnelli
Jones
MOVIES
"By
God. She reminds me of me."
—
Rooster
Cogburn
(John Wayne), marveling at Kim Darby's character in the movie True
Grit
(1969)
"Pain
make man think, thought make man wise, and wisdom make life
endurable."
—
Sakini
(Marlon Brando), in one of my all-time favorite movies, Teahouse
of the August Moon
(1956)
"Doggone
it, folks, let's don't let a little ol' Indian raid break up a good
barbecue and rodeo."
—
Fauntleroy
Sage
(Big John Hamilton), providing one of my all-time favorite quotes, in
the movie McLintock (1963)
“I
want you and some young man to have what I had, because all the gold
in the United States Treasury and all the harp music in heaven can’t
equal what happens between a man and a woman with all that growin’
together. I can’t explain it any better than that.”
—
G.W.
McLintock
(John Wayne), eloquently explaining things to his reel daughter, in
the movie McLintock (1963)
"Here's
looking at you, kid."
—
Rick
Blaine
(Humphrey Bogart), in perhaps my all-time favorite movie, Casablanca
(1942)
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