Daventry Franklin Quotes & Sayings

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done. — Mick Jagger

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet. — Jill Tarter

The food which I get by begging is divine." After I had thought over what she said, I understood her meaning. When we get our food precariously as alms, we remember God the giver. But when we receive our food regularly at home, as a matter of course, we are apt to regard it as ours by right. — Rabindranath Tagore

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. — Nancy Lopez

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli

A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there. — A.A. Patawaran

Fortune is as fickle as the wind, but she occasionally gives moments worth every second in gold. — Hope Ann

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story. — Adam Schlesinger

[...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] — Jose Saramago

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine. — Vachel Lindsay

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars. — Zach Johnson

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed. — Edwin Land