Hume Cronyn Famous Quotes
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn Quotations
"Whenever I open a door, I pull on the doorknob real hard, because isn't there a saying that if it comes off in your hand, you can rear back and throw it as hard as you can I thought I heard that somewhere."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
Aesop
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
Brenda Ueland
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
"Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens."
Jerry Maguire
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation."
Michel de Montaigne
"Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
Flannery O Connor
"Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish."
Manley E Rogers