You know if I were writing tickets right now it would cost you $500 for holding your child in your lap.
Ernest Moore
Related
Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?
CANDACE BUSHNELL You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were sti...
JONATHAN COE Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was...
KELLY MARTIN Tickets only cost $1 and it only takes one ticket to win. If you took your prize in annual payments,...
CATHY DOYLE JOHNSTON If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it i...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
PATRICK O'BRIAN You should detail your house like you'd detail your car if it were for sale. The cost of staging you...
BARB SCHWARZ If Sally were here right now, she would be the calm-headed one. She could talk you through your sorr...
HOLLY TACHOVSKY If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and a...
ADAM JONES If you do not know what is on your network, if you cannot at least estimate the hourly, monthly or y...
LAURA DIDIO You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. T...
JODI PICOULT The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap...
MARLEE MATLIN If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
JON KRAKAUER Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece ...
JESSICA VERDAY If you got this from your vet, it would probably cost about 30 or 40 dollars.
SUSAN SMITH Good, if you were not part Lycanthrope that blow would have killed you. Now, stop fighting your pain...
LEE TAYLOR How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.
BRIAN HAYWARD If you can't name your 3-5 Foundational Core Values right now, you are at risk of violating them in ...
JOHNNY WALKER There were 500 tickets allotted to each school for advance sales. Schools that sell those tickets wi...
ZEB SIMON You would detail your car if you were going to sell it. You should detail your house too.
BARB SCHWARZ The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN 'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
JOEY ADAMS You would think that it would be hard to miss someone in the road if you were going back to look for...
BROOKE BUETTI if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.
G.K. CHESTERTON I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip poppe...
DEMETRI MARTIN I knew it would be. Our theme for this week was holding on to the rope. If you're on a cliff and the...
BILL TRIBOU Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ...
DAN PEARCE I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but ...
TOMMY LASORDA It is really important to have those tools in your possession if you lose your child.
CYNTHIA BARTLETT If you know were your going, you will do by all means in order to reach your destiny.
NEMUKONDENI TSHIMBILUNI It's the moment of truth. You made it through the admissions process, and your child was accepted. N...
MARTHA HOLLER Call and write your senators. Tell them how you feel about this before it happens again, and hopeful...
JENNY SLIGHT Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number ...
ADAM SMITH If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other ha...
DAVID MAMET If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You have that weird tension of puffiness in your face. If you have air in your lungs you're holding ...
LAURIE MCLEOD You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your pho...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and e...
SPARKY ANDERSON If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right.
STEVE JOBS You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
OPRAH WINFREY An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Fighting in front of your children is child abuse. You may not know how much it affects them but if ...
MYLYN YAMPAN You can't get those tickets. It would be a miracle if you pulled those tickets. If they want $200 fo...
GREG COUCH If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
VANESSA LACHEY Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most...
JAMES PENNEBAKER Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane ...
DAVID MUTTI CLARK Right now, if you commit triple homicide or write a $500 bad check, you have to be housed together.
CAPTAIN NATHAN JOHNS If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that...
SCOTT MCNEALY If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
EMILY BRONTë It's really bad for a number of reasons. Number one, if you have a child in the front seat period, a...
MANTILL WILLIAMS Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your li...
MARISSA MEYER Your instincts may tell you that you can’t survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftov...
MAUREEN BRADY Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
JASPER FFORDE I know I would trade all the accolades, all the points, to be in the position that Elon is in right ...
KYLE HINES Be specific about what would be best for your child. If you need play clothes for the babies, say yo...
DIANE HARRIS We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in y...
JANE ELLIOTT You can’t raise your child probably if you don’t sometimes raise your voice.
VIKRANT PARSAI Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from no...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I wonder what would happen if you gave up your need to be right?
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to k...
LARRY ITEJERE Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get you...
JENNIFER MCMAHON I don't get paid on commission. If I did I'd be out there right now writing tickets. If I see them i...
CASEY RICHARDSON The secret of success is before attempting anything, be very clear about why you are doing it.” If...
BOHDI SANDERS As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen t...
HENRY WINKLER It doesn't matter how you get your baby, even if it's via FedEx as long as you get to hold your prec...
CINDY MARGOLIS I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM BENNETT Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, know...
A.W. TOZER You have the right to set ground rules. This means deciding if, when, and how you want to see the pe...
ELLEN BASS You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. No...
ELIZABETH BERG You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage...
ELLEN G. WHITE Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dream...
AMIT KALANTRI People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really ju...
JOHN SCALZI Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU It throws you out. I'm left-handed. It's like writing with my right hand. What you write is going to...
DARDEN SMITH The only thing we don't include is the cost of your meals or airline tickets.
DICK WHEELER Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of y...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I know what would you do if you were me but what would you do if you were you?
VIKRANT PARSAI If you could live anywhere in the world where would you live ” “Right here ” Enzo replies. “...
MARY HOGAN Gratefulness is "great" for you. It improves your emotional, physical & spiritual health. What are y...
WILLIAM PAISLEY If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would ...
R.D. LAING Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, yo...
JIM BOULTON If you're both single and available, go for it. But be impeccable with your behavior and your work. ...
APRIL MASINI The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it tur...
DANIEL HANDLER To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and ...
ALI VINCENT It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there h...
DACRE MONTGOMERY
More Ernest Moore
It was a good shot. It just kicked off (Barnes') foot and right to me. There wasn't anybody open so ...
ERNEST MOORE You can't put a price tag on a child's life.
ERNEST MOORE That could wind up costing a person a lot more than $50-$60 for a safety seat.
ERNEST MOORE I didn't really know how to do it either until we took a class.
ERNEST MOORE 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 All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by p...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass o...
ERNEST RENAN To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
ERNEST RENAN They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
ERNEST DIMNET It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
ERNEST JONES To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplis...
ERNEST RENAN Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
ERNEST BENN Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
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'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ...
ERNEST RENAN Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his l...
ERNEST RENAN A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH Ideas are the root of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th...
ERNEST HELLO My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY