Standard Bearers Quotes

#1. The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

Janet Fitch

#2. A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Nancy Lopez

#3. TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

Carlton Cuse

#4. God will pardon: That's His business.

Heinrich Heine

#5. The laugh count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

David Edward

#6. He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Heraclitus