Quotes of: Author Keyword

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Gerrit Smith

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

John Mellencamp

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

William Penn

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Adnan Pachachi

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam

Stephanie Skeem

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Callie Khouri

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

The Darkness That Comes Before

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

The Da Vinci Code

...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

A Familiar Rain

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Image, Music, Text

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

The Shack

The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.

Master of Stupidity

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

The Sunless Parlour

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Athenaeus

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Tony Hillerman

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.

Dr Paul Gitwaza

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Pratibha Patil