Gene Fowler Quotes

#1. He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

#2. Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Gene Fowler

#3. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Gene Fowler

#4. Ambition is no cure for love!

Walter Scott

#5. I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

Sam Neill

#6. I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

Tim Heidecker

#7. Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Gene Fowler

#8. Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

#9. Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

Gene Fowler

#10. Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

#11. It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

Gene Fowler

#12. A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Gene Fowler

#13. The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Gene Fowler

#14. Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Gene Fowler

#15. Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowler

#16. If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Gene Fowler

#17. It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Gene Fowler

#18. I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Jared Kushner

#19. Surely none are so crazy as those who are content to live unprepared to die. Surely the unbelief of men is the most amazing thing in the world.

J.C. Ryle

#20. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#21. Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Gene Fowler

#22. If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

Noam Chomsky

#23. What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler

#24. Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Gene Fowler

#25. News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowler

#26. Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

Mark Pellegrino

#27. Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Gene Fowler

#28. Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

Gene Fowler

#29. Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

Sher Valenzuela

#30. Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Gene Fowler

#31. No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Keith Houghton

#32. An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Gene Fowler

#33. There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Mary Norris

#34. News is history shot on the wing.

Gene Fowler

#35. To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

Jeffrey Lewis

#36. Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

Aaron Sorkin