Quotes by American Authors - Page 191

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
Jean Kerr
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Mrs. Henry Adams
Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
Whitney Balliett
Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.
Damon Runyon
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
Henry Miller
No man's credit is as good as his money.
E.W. Howe
If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inman
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
Wilfred Peterson
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
Eric Hoffer
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting important and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. )ust put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.
Shakti Gawain
You were placed on this earth to create not to compete.
Robert Anthony
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
James Russell Lowell
I can always be distracted by love but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner
You lose it if you talk about it.
Ernest Hemingway
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.
George Balanchine
Doodling is the brooding of the hand.
Saul Steinberg
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.
Martha Graham
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner
The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.
Stephen Sondheim
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
If you want to make enemies try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anaïs Nin
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson
As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Christina Baldwin
Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
Donald M. Nelson
To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.
Anaïs Nin
Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed.
John Dewey
The key to change ... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer
Any truth creates a scandal.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Marianne Williamson
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson