I was trained to be a deadly killer. I was probably one of the Marine Corps best killers. But, I dec...
ERNEST MCQUEEN I've punished myself more than anyone could possibly punish me. It's more important the judgement I ...
ERNEST MCQUEEN I was gung-ho when I went in.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I guess I'll have to take whatever comes my way.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I'm glad to get this behind me. What are they going to do with a 55-year-old man that's baldheaded, ...
ERNEST MCQUEEN I just decided I didn't want to be a part of killing anybody. That's about as plain as I can say it.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really bel...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN The pink sheep of the family
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fash...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to f...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I've had good times; I've had bad times.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is no better designer than nature.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN Fame should be left to the film stars.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can get insular with fashion.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intell...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN We can't do it every year because we don't want to overlap with other fire departments in Niagara Fa...
STEVE MCQUEEN I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
STEVE MCQUEEN I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
STEVE MCQUEEN It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'Nat...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN We started a couple of weeks ago, but it will take a few months to put it all together. It's just pe...
STEVE MCQUEEN Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. Y...
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN You see those on people at places like Vail, where they work while they?re skiing.
BRIAN MCQUEEN They?re way more user friendly.
BRIAN MCQUEEN Andy was a great skier. His accident woke a lot of us up. If it could happen to Andy it could happen...
BRIAN MCQUEEN Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer...
STEVE MCQUEEN The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the pro...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I was just so grossed out. George and Meredith have a brother-sister relationship. He knows how she ...
KARYN MCQUEEN I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it del...
STEVEN RODNEY MCQUEEN I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and an...
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite.
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've g...
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is usef...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're beautiful, like a May fly.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creati...
ERNEST BARBARIC I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
ERNEST DOWSON A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
ERNEST RENAN All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
ERNEST DIMNET When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
ERNEST RENAN I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...
ERNEST DIMNET Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n...
ERNEST BECKER The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
ERNEST RENAN If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl...
ERNEST RENAN Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN Ideas are the roots of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY