Irving Stone Quotes

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

Irving Stone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1903 - August 26, 1989

Topics

HeartEyesBridgeBrainWriting

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

Matthew Sweet

TimeMomentValueCareYouKnow

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

John Roberts

JusticeAccomplishVoteAuthority

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

Tom Sizemore

MeKnowNowWillQuestionYears

When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

Tom Douglas

ParentsBreakfastSaturdayBedYoung

Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.

Lucia Micarelli

TrainingDoingPerfectEverything

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

ChangeProgressMistakeStrange

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WeaknessCrueltySprings

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

Johnny Van Zant

PeopleYouBadSome PeopleAnything

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Carter

PeopleBibleYouCreateKnowWant

I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.

Cornelia Parker

WorkManLookingViewKnowGlass

The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.

Brandon Webb

TrustDieInformationLoseSecurity

If someone is willing to sell out his principles for the job, he is not worthy of it.

Tzipi Livni

JobSomeonePrinciplesWorthyOut

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