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Jean Paul Quotes

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jean Paul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: german
Birth: March 21, 1763 - November 14, 1825

Topics

Beauty Great Fruit Party Fools Mood

I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

Jerry Hall

Man King House Always Well Should

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

Melissa Rosenberg

Me Writing World Eating Sandwich

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Maya Angelou

Work Myself Fool Liar Hypocrite Say

I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

Jeff Nichols

Ideas Writing Think Process You

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

Amish Tripathi

People Ideas Outside Industry Come

Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.

Tony Cardenas

Goals Decision Achieve Understand

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Learning Man Me Never Who Learned

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

Maryanne Wolf

Children Reading Deep Learn Media

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

Martin O'Malley

Children College Grow Credit Tax

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

Douglas Adams

Love Service School Child Christian

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

Chris Stapleton

Time Writing Country Edge Know Pop

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Chuck Feeney

Money People Say Tell Obligation