Authorswrite Quotes

#1. Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

Karl Kraus

#2. True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship.

Robert Graves

#3. Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.

Robert Newton Peck

#4. My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

Peter Abrahams

#5. Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

#6. New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

Max Planck

#7. People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#9. We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Flea

#10. FIFTH AVENUE is the highway of parades. Up its wide thoroughfare have filed the notables of the world since New York became the sensation capital of the world.

Grant Stockbridge

#11. Her halo was never gold, or it couldn't have rusted so completely.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

Chris Matthews

#13. One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Sarah Kay

#14. Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

Jerry Coleman