“ All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ”
- Anita Brookner- Copy
- 2.1K
“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 526
“ I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2K
“ Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. ”
- Ken Hill- Copy
- 438
“ To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2K
“ For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. ”
- Terry McMillan- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills. ”
- A. B. Simpson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I would the gods had made thee poetical. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer. ”
- Robert MacNeil- Copy
- 955
“ We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. ”
- Natalie Clifford Barney- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
- 759
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9