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- Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002
- A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
- There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
- The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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