Blushy Famous Quotes & Sayings

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. — L. Ron Hubbard

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something. — John Cleese

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up. — James MacDonald

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy. — Samantha Morton

The guy was still staring at me. I felt rather blushy. Finally I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all [ ... ] After awhile the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flickered my eyebrows up to say, I win. — John Green

The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best. — William Zinsser

Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had always associated with art. It had no style, no composition, no judgment. It freed me from personal experience. For the first time, there was nothing to it: it was pure picture. That's why I wanted to have it, to show it - not use it as a means to painting but use painting as a means to photography. — Gerhard Richter

When the armor's gone from you, you'll feel the pain of others too. — Robert Fisher

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way. — Chanakya

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth. — Walter Lippmann