Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Mickey Spillane

A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.

Larry Kirshbaum

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Robert Benchley

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Bill Cosby

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

Gillian Jacobs

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Hal Holbrook

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

Richard Attenborough

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

A Familiar Rain

These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.

Rise of the Machines--Human Authors in a Digital World

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I define God as ALL. All wisdom, All-wise, All-loving and All-eternal.

The Marble Orchard.. Author Mitch Kynock ISBN 1484942108

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

The Proverbs of John Heywood. Being the "Proverbes" of That Author Printed 1546

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Robert Benchley

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Sam Neill

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Mikhail Bakunin

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Van Wyck Brooks