Misattributed To Tom Stoppard Quotes

#1. People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Toni Cade Bambara

#2. And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

David Maraniss

#3. People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Ben Carson

#4. Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

Bill Vaughan

#5. Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Ameen Rihani

#6. It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.

Seneca.

#7. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk.

C.S. Lewis

#8. I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

Patrick DeWitt

#9. My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Michele Lee

#10. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.

Georges Bataille

#11. To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock ... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

Kate Voegele