Top 21 Leading Author Quotes
#1. There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.
Charlie Munger
#2. Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.
Tony Evans
#3. The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
George Lucas
#4. I think the first thing that I really did was 'Traffic Light,' which was more of a half-hour sitcom. And from there, I just got more comedic roles.
Liza Lapira
#5. Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.
Louise Mensch
#6. My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
David Ortiz
#7. In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#8. I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.
Anthony Fauci
#9. What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
James Wolcott
#11. The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.
Robert J. Allison
#12. There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.
Henry Ian Cusick
#14. There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Not sure I would've been alive for their rescue if you hadn't set that bitch on fire. How did you do that?
Richelle Mead
#16. Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.
Napoleon Hill
#17. Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
Ulysses S. Grant
#18. What is Religion according to you?
"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
Vishwas Mudagal
#19. I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
Steven Adler
#20. The interesting pyrotechnics of the day had played a part - how could you write while pocket thunderstorms kept coming and going over the water?
Stephen King
#21. My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.
Joe Paterno
