Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Remy de Gourmont
Recitation: by Male by Female
Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.
Jeffrey Thomas
ExpectationsYouLeaveBeginnings
Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'
Melvyn Bragg
AttitudeStupidThinkDangerousSeem
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
Matthew McConaughey
WorkDayMeDinnerReadySchedule
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.
Jeffrey Eugenides
LookingWaveStudentNewWantKind
I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John Wooden
MoreUpThanBuiltElseAnyone
Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
Stephen Hopkins
WritingMysteryKnowingPlayingAway
What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.
Sukarno
EffortListeningSayingRadioUpHe
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey
DepressionI AmRealityLoseGoOff
I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
Mickey Drexler
ChangeDayPeopleLongWantMeet
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.
Johnny Knoxville
HateLaughTryingMoreRealizeFans
It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.
Doutzen Kroes
PicturesSkinImportantSometimes
My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
Britt Ekland
FatherBusinessBeachSkiingSummer
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Remy de Gourmont