"I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy."

-- David Niven

#School Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.”
“A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1820). “Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406
“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
“I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!”

Source : Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333
“Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.”
“And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.”

Source : Song: The What
“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?”

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