Author Quotes: Inspiring Words from Literary Masters (Page 2)

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

Mark Twain, Author

"The true art of memory is the art of attention"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"

Mark Twain, Author

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause"

Mark Twain, Author

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself"

George Orwell, Author

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle"

Ian Fleming, Author

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long"

Doug Coupland, Author

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

Judith Viorst, Author

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"If you have a vision, do something with it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain, Author

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

Clive James, Author

"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

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