Felicia Dorothea Hemans Quotes & Sayings

The writer in any field, and particularly the television writer, runs into "dry periods" - weeks or months when it seems that everything he writes goes the rounds and ultimately gets nowhere. This is not only a bad moment but an endless one. I remember a five-month period late in 1952 when my diet consisted chiefly of black coffee and fingernails. I'd written six half-hour television plays and each one had been rejected at least five times. What this kind of thing does to a family budget is obvious; and what it does to the personality of the writer is even worse. — Rod Serling

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. — Josiah Royce

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. — Jamie Farr

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up. — Desmond Tutu

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities. — Alain De Botton

When you love something, you keep it to yourself. Then no one can take it from you. — Gabi Kreslehner