Quotes of: Author Keyword

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

John Ashcroft

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Cate Blanchett

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Cofer Black

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

George Pataki

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

Gena Showalter

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

Jayce O'Neal

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

James Jeffrey Roche

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Dalai Lama

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

Jonathan Safran Foer

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

John Green

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

John Wycliffe

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Carl Hiaasen

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

Charles B. Rangel

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

Ned Vizzini