Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Mahmoud Abbas

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

M. Beddow Bayly

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

Mark W. Boyer

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Malcolm Forbes

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten.

Roman Payne

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

Samuel Butler

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

Sloane Crosley

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Martha Sweeney

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nigel Barker

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

Nolan Bushnell

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Nicolas Cage

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

Gabe Newell

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

Walter Jon Williams

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Robert Redford

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Bill Forsyth

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith