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Herbert Bayard Swope Quotes

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 5, 1882 - June 20, 1958

Topics

People Eye Story Forget Blood First

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Jerry Pournelle

Science America Early Nobody First

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

Dress People Feel Just Because Know

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'

Love Focus Know Movies Christmas

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

Lost Hollywood Real Her Got Cream

I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate.

Work Job Trouble Run Understand

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

Good Water Think Enough You Drink

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Simon Mainwaring

Business Community Commitment Purpose

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

Good Great Fight Win Just Them

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Children Parents Think Own Left Our

I'm a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

Me Winning Proud Fast Country Going

The future is kind of a bleak place.

Future Place Kind Bleak

If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.

Life Someone Would Whom Pick Many

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