Memorable Quotes - Page 9

• Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

  Agatha Christie

  Crime Novels, Literature, Can Do

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

  Tom Clancy

  Dream, Real, Responsibility

  "Writers". Book by A. Deutsch, 1995.

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• Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

  Tom Clancy

  Guy, Computer, Macs

  "Escape The Pace: 100 Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life". Book by Lisa Rickwood, 2002.

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• I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

  Tom Clancy

  Real, Stuff, Made

  The New York Times, July 27, 1986.

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• Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

  Tom Clancy

  Thinking, Storyteller

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Feb 22, 2014

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• I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Names, Library

  "King Of The 'Techno-thriller'" by Patrick Anderson, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

  Tom Clancy

  Men, Risk, Forgiving

  "King Of The 'Techno-thriller'" by Patrick Anderson, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

  Tom Clancy

  Communication, Technology, People

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• The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

  Joan Collins

  Women, Advice, Secret

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

  Mason Cooley

  Travel, Thinking, Foreigners

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• You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Courage, Ideas, Might

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• I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Advice

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  Doris Day

  Birthday, Women, Knowledge

  Quoted in A E Hotchner Doris Day (1978).

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• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

  Emily Dickinson

  God, Spiritual, Thinking

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex, Women, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Next Adventure

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

  Ariel Durant

  Women, Civilization, Stifling

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Goodness

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

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• If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy

  Heartburn ch. 4 (1983)

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• God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Women, Empowerment, Brain

  "Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart" by Norman M. Brown, Ellen S. Amatea, sychology Press, (p. 297), 2000.

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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