Sarah Fielding Quotes

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Sarah Fielding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 8, 1710 - April 9, 1768

Topics

JudgmentModestyOwnCandorWorks

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

John Christopher

ChildrenWritingLadyEarlyTrue

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

Robert Rinder

DayPeopleNightDownLooksTax

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Jeff Raikes

BetterLearnYouBadResultsTeach

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

John Schnatter

GovernmentFreeYouEntrepreneurship

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

Stanley Tucci

CameraMoveLikeMuchAnyway

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

Star Jones

MyselfLongUpBigGuyWanted

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Robyn Hitchcock

GoodTimeYouRealizeFirstPretty

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

Robert Zubrin

SpaceGoalMarsNeedsShouldHumans

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

Rush Limbaugh

FunnyI AmRememberYouKnowOld

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Michael Ledeen

GodHistoryStoryEarthHumanError

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

Jon Taffer

BartenderBusinessman

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

AgeWarProblemsEarlyDoneNothing

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