Edna Ferber Famous Quotes
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant."
"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way."
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never."
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber Quotations
Success is a great deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.
Tony Kanal
"Out, damned spot out, I say"
William Shakespeare
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Woody Allen
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
"The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man."
Henry David Thoreau
"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
Saint Augustine
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Madame Swetchine
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson