Quotes of: Author Keyword

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.

The Reiki Teachers Guidebook

Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

Rowena Through the Wall

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

Single Dad Laughing

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

My Life in France

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Making Money

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The Shadow of the Wind

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

The Plague

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Pathfinder

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

Real Christianity

Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of and it's sequels, and

Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

The Uncommon Reader

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Venus in Arms

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

V for Vendetta

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

V for Vendetta

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Why Leadership Sucks: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

Abu Bakr