Abraham Lincoln Quotes

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

Topics

ReadingOthersTasteWhateverBeen

I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.

Jim Sullivan

HomeNeverYearsAboutHad

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Joan Didion

YouPersonGeneralImpulseDistract

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

Jerry Saltz

LifeBalanceHappyEnergyFeelYou

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Joel Osteen

WorkTodaySometimesYearsWorks

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

John Galsworthy

PowerWorldImpossibleYouSayOver

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

Michael Connelly

LearnWriteFictionWantedWorlds

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

Steven Spielberg

LoveSkyWarPeopleMeHorse

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

VisionWritingLanguageSpeechWay

You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

Luka Modric

GoalsFootballGameYouExpectLike

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Sacks

FutureStormGovernmentUncertainty

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

Dean Devlin

PartnerReachPromotionPerfectMost

I'm not much of a gym rat; I'd rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.

Ashton Eaton

MeToughGymI CanRunRat

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