A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That's winning always.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
