Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both ...

Michael Leunig

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Michael Leunig

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Ideas Have Consequences

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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