I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?
Ernest Hemingway
Related She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was much more interested in making things than in designing them. MARC NEWSON We need to protect the kids by giving them something to do, ... (It's about) making them interested,... JAMES BROWN They value what has come to them from prior generations. They value the handiwork, making things the... JULIA OLIN the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do... STACIA KANE Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles... WILLIAM FAULKNER And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or wom... WILLIAM FAULKNER Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that i... HENRY DAVID THOREAU A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the ... PAUL AUSTER People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues... CALVIN TRILLIN I thought it would be good for me to do something bigger, more bombastic, more physical. I had a bla... JASON SCHWARTZMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (Wh... WAYNE COYNE We choose this life in Mokia. Not because it is ‘primitive’ or ‘advanced,’ but because it is... BRANDON SANDERSON Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the ... NORTHRUP CHRISTIANE The candidates are more costly due to the high salaries and perks in the North. Companies are gettin... MANOJ SHARMA WhEN SOmEonE ASkS yOU For A SweeT NEvEr Say U AInt HUNgery!! Its Dogs Who EAt FOr HUnger PeoplE Eat ... MONIKA SINGH Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, h... IRWIN SHAW Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitti... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of t... CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D. It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more intere... ERIC STOLTZ It's a very unique situation. So we are kind of, in some ways, making it up as we go. We are trying ... JANET PRICE All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free. ADAM COHEN I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized ... ROB DELANEY I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ... WAYNE MCGREGOR The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar... NEIL GAIMAN Most of them are making as much as they were before, or more in some cases. ANDY SANTERRE Whether it's something from the refrigerator or something from a fast food restaurant, they're eatin... BRIAN BEIHL Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ... J. J. ABRAMS A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising ... JONATHAN SACKS There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a champi... BERNHARD LANGER When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all ... ANDREW WEIL It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm n... RANDA HAINES It's not something you really read about or see on TV — who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppre... NICOLAS CAGE It's not something you really read about or see on TV who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppres... NICOLAS CAGE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin... THOMAS HUXLEY I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors -... FRANCESCO CARROZZINI A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi... FREDERICK DOUGLASS I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the gar... DAVID HOBSON I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or r... SAM HOUSTON Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I've been a little bit more bold, not only in my writing but in the way I handle business. There's s... JAVIER COLON But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was mo... ISHMAEL BEAH To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delv... BAT FOR LASHES I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they b... GORDON PARKS Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr... NADINE GORDIMER Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the pri... SETH GODIN I really hope that by giving the children a chance to try something as simple as fruit, it will open... KATHLEEN GLYNN I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I th... MATT BEVIN Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are t... VISWANATHAN ANAND Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead ... JOSH HOMME You can't charge more for flowers when the guy across the street isn't raising his prices over the e... BOB HEFFERNAN To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more beco... WALTER PATER Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love m... SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more,... SWEDISH PROVERB In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. STEVE ERICKSON Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—... DAVID BYRNE I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a ... CHARLES MCCARRY The people that know the least about you say the most about you. Aint that hilarious? DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable th... JIM HARRISON It was for the first time really that the chief acknowledged we weren't making these things up. The ... BRYSON PONCE Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be l... ARIEL LEVY Most artists are making more money on tours than from CDs. That's why ticket prices and the cost of ... MICHAEL RAPINO These areas of the brain are fairly deep and not associated with math and taxes. They're more associ... BRIAN KNUTSON Oh, man. I’m not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I’m more interested in making Lamborghin... SEONG PILL KON Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing.... CLIFFORD COHEN It's been 22 years of making records and I must have been to Japan 25 times or more. There's not too... JON BON JOVI Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that... TUPAC SHAKUR Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentall... SARA ZARR Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,... SWEDISH PROVERB less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploit... EARL BLUMENAUER I never thought we would turn the ball over and do the things we did to help them. We gave them a co... DAN BLAND I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles... MICHIO KAKU I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas p... JACK CANFIELD It was very frustrating to me to have people break in and destroy the things that we did have. I gue... GWEN FERGUSON Some of these things appear, on the surface, to be very minor. In initial interviews, it's more or l... KARL WOLF Because it was couched in realism, I think people recognized things. The more you understand somethi... RICKY GERVAIS We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fai... JUSTIN HALPERN I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners ... SIMON VAN BOOY Everyone knows that it is irrational to get involved in politics, so, as a matter of course, the rat... ERIC ROBERT MORSE Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to sa... PATRICK STUMP People lose their muscles in space because there is no gravity. I've designed the strength training ... DONNER GRIGSBY So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a... JACKIE COOPER If they were doing something that created the problem, or if there was something that was making the... GARY GORDON I watched the film a couple of times and it was an average performance. I thought I was a little ten... CHASE BLACKBURN I never could see myself in Playgirl or People or anything like that. You just don't think about tho... BILLY CURRINGTON Our government, at least according to the NIGHTLINE program that ran, financed STAR GATE over 20 yea... ART BELL I just see some of the things I can pull off as far as trying to wiggle through a hole or trying to ... BERNARD POLLARD What's left tends to be people that are making something unique, people that are constantly innovati... JAMES BUCHEN We don't look at things as done in the past because we are continuing to work. If we think something... ALEX LENAHAN Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you ... U.G. KRISHNAMURTI One of the main things about recycling is you are making more room. DANIEL JOHNSON The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. N.D. WILSON
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l... ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, 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 That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY