Wallace Stegner
Related Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS 75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction. GLEN HODDLE C. JOYBELL C. VIRGINIA WOOLF ELISABETH ELLIOT He believed in his soldiers, and, in the true spirit of his profession, gave his life protecting his... ARMY SGT. AYN RAND MARK TWAIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN ANTONIO MUNOZ MOLINA These are very serious charges. What (Ryan) has at stake is his freedom, his reputation and his fina... DAN WEBB CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CLARE BOOTHE LUCE MARK TWAIN BEN OKRI My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. TAGG ROMNEY The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer l... ERICH SAUER MARCUS AURELIUS JAMES SALTER VIRGINIA WOOLF WILLIAM JAMES SAMUEL JOHNSON THE BACHELOR, THE MEANING OF HIS LIFE LIVING IN DARKNESS IS A CURSED ANIMAL.
THE BACHELOR, THE MEANI... MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his j... GABRIELLE ROY LOUIS D. BRANDEIS The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa... ROALD DAHL ANTON CHEKHOV SARAH J. MAAS AHARON APPELFELD BLAISE PASCAL BARTON GELLMAN TERRY PRATCHETT FAWN M. BRODIE By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser knees, by the callosities ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Love and strength, like a fireman and his axe are two tools to a caring and valuable friendship. JEFFREY LEONARD BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honest... HANAN ASHRAWI CHANAKYA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY ERNEST HEMINGWAY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitu... JAMES ADAMS ROBERT MUSIL ROD SERLING Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. ROD STERLING WILLIAM OSLER SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS BRANDON SANDERSON He is a pretty good athlete, a heck of a kid and his expectations are very high. He's very intense a... CURT REED CHARLES LYELL Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. SIR CHARLES LYELL SAM HARRIS WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT PHILIP JAMES BAILEY PHILIP JAMES BAILEY If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ... HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes a... AVERY BRUNDAGE A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. HOWARD JACOBSON I was immediately struck by his genuine personality, his intelligence, his sense of humor and his lo... MARIA LETONA Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are ra... DAN JACOBS LUDWIG FEUERBACH KNUTE ROCKNE SAMUEL BUTLER ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE WILLIAM COBBETT The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is ... IRWIN SHAW GARY WRIGHT He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his... LILLIAN HANSEN Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity... HAZRAT ALI (A.S) AKSHAY VASU TERESA COLLINS RAMANA MAHARSHI What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or... CATHERINE CROWE G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM A person’s single quote is good enough to note for the enlightened people as what he has got in hi... ANUJ SOMANY GORE VIDAL PRIMO LEVI C.S. LEWIS CRISS JAMI RINGO STARR W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his tar... MEIR KAHANE DAVID PIETRUSZA ORSON SCOTT CARD Scotty lived and breathed lacrosse. Officiating was a big, big part of his life. He reached the high... BUTCH WEST For the moment, all I can say is that I'm greatly encouraged by what the president has told me, grea... JAMSHEED MARKER
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DAVID STEGNER Largeness is a lifelong matter,” he wrote. “. . . You grow because you are not content not to. Y... WILLIAM STEGNER I like 'Jesus is Just Alright with Me.' I know some people think it's corny, but there's no substitu... JEFF STEGNER I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco... WILLIAM WALLACE WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin... WALLACE SHAWN There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev... WALLACE SHAWN I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou... WALLACE SHAWN Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard. WALLACE SHAWN Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por... WALLACE SHAWN I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe... WALLACE SHAWN After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br... WALLACE SHAWN I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write. WALLACE SHAWN I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth... WALLACE SHAWN I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a... WALLACE SHAWN Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ... WALLACE SHAWN I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ... WALLACE SHAWN My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth... WALLACE SHAWN I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies. WALLACE SHAWN 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would... WALLACE SHAWN We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ... WALLACE SHAWN It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to... WALLACE SHAWN I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess... WALLACE SHAWN When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr... WALLACE SHAWN We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ... WALLACE SHAWN Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any... WALLACE SHAWN I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien... WALLACE SHAWN 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I... WALLACE SHAWN CARLOS WALLACE You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could... DANIEL WALLACE MIKE WALLACE WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS WALLACE STEVENS O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com... WILLIAM WALLACE NICOLLE WALLACE I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. CHRIS WALLACE Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer... AL WALLACE Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s... AL WALLACE If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ... AL WALLACE You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us... AL WALLACE It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t... AL WALLACE It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens... AL WALLACE You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo... AL WALLACE With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ... AL WALLACE I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap. AL WALLACE It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ... AL WALLACE I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean. 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I'm rolling with him. BEN WALLACE I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea... BEN WALLACE All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h... BEN WALLACE They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all... BEN WALLACE That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is... BEN WALLACE Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing. ANDREW WALLACE We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n... ANDREW WALLACE We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected. ANDREW WALLACE We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday]. 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