FastSaying

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.


Anthony Trollope

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

He who laughs last has planned to tell the story first.
LANE OLINGHOUSE If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people ...
ORHAN PAMUK So he gets on the witness stand and comes up with all the filler needed to tell the story, a good no...
DARREN LAMARCA The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE If Pataki can craft a message that builds on this, then he has a story to tell. But the story has to...
NELSON WARFIELD The first step now is for Barrymore to make an absolutely clean breast of it and tell everything tha...
TONY BENNETT He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's...
DARRYL FRANK Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from de...
WALTER BENJAMIN Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with mo...
LYNN ABBEY A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path w...
SUSAN J. MCINTIRE Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same ch...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU His support will be invaluable. He has a fabulous grass roots organization that is going to help tel...
JANE CAMPBELL Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt...
DAVID SLOMA When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trappe...
CATHLEEN SCHINE We wanted to make sure he understood what we expected and needed from him. But I told Juan that this...
AL GRUSHKIN We're proud of him because of the person he is and because he feels so strongly that he has a story ...
ARON RALSTON We're proud of him because of the person he is and because he feels so strongly that he has a story ...
DONNA RALSTON With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end o...
GRAHAM GREENE When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a...
JANE LEAVY Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scop...
GARY KRIST To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that&#...
DAVE EGGERS Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ...
NANCY KRESS I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors...
RACHEL JOYCE I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own...
TOBIAS WOLFF I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI I have always been considered a bit of an outsider, and a general failure at everything I put my han...
ANDREW JAMES PRITCHARD The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r...
KEANU REEVES When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
POLLY ADLER Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he'...
JAMES MCBRIDE A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Leroy used to tell hitchhikers his whole life story — about his travels, his hometown, the baby. H...
BOBBIE ANN MASON In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete....
DAVID BERGEN A lot of them -- not all, but a lot of them -- will tell you completely outrageous stories because i...
DEBORAH WILEY But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own...
PETER SHAFFER When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER anybody can write a book, 'cause everybody has a story to tell
MARIANNE MOORE A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL You will have to ask Jose if he hasn't got it back from the club but perhaps he hasn't. I try to giv...
BALTEMAR BRITO Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn...
SUSAN HOWATCH A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about i...
SARAH VOWELL Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would have to tell my sto...
RONALD STEEL Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama,...
MAL PEET Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... From Chris' point of view, people would come here and we'd give them a great (factory) tour ... but ...
DICK BOAK Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordina...
SONNY MEHTA I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries t...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I look at that, I don't see that. Did he miss some throws that he should have made? Sure, and I...
BRAD CHILDRESS Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major...
JAMES OLIVER The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE Mike expects so much from us, and I think it's the first year that he really has that feeling it's s...
SAM CASSELL When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head
SARAH ORNE JEWETT My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story o...
BLACK ELK I've been trying to tell him to do the dives that he does. He hasn't had his great meet yet. He has ...
CAROLYN PETERSON He feels like this is an opportunity to tell his story.
JOAN LYNCH God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say th...
DWIGHT L. MOODY I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an e...
DARREN BOYD When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, be...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has liv...
MELES ZENAWI I hope he comes by. I'd be glad to tell him why these files are here. He has a lot of things to lear...
JUAN E. SAENZ When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.
DON MADDEN He wouldn't tell me his story about getting the Bronze Star until I was 18. He wasn't one to blow hi...
JAY STEINDL How you tell a story is just as important as what you tell. Virgin Atlantic as a brand has a real [m...
JEFF HICKS If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I...
GRAHAM GREENE I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, becau...
TAYLOR SWIFT They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn'...
SUSAN DANLY Griffin can't do what he does without his teammates. He's the first one to tell you that. But he's a...
DAVE SICA That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A wri...
GERALD CLARKE In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine...
ALISON WEIR John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ...
JOHN UPDIKE This is not justified. It was all wrong. The boy was coming in and all he wanted to do was tell his ...
CLYDE EVANS Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II He has not decided, and we're trying to discourage him from that. I think that he's listening to us ...
BRIAN MCELDOWNEY What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’ ‘Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his exi...
VOLTAIRE I always tell my students that an audience will decide whether or not to listen in the first 10 seco...
EMILY CAMPBELL He has come through from being a scholar with us and he is not far away from his first start.
BARRY HUNTER I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you...
DAVID MACINNIS GILL My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER I call it ?album-making? because all you have to do is put the pictures on and tell your story.
DANA SHIELDS It's easy to tell a story than to read a story. Then again, to tell a story you must read it. But, n...
CHARLES JONES No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Cap...
AVI ARAD old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER

More Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find hi...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has pr...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satir...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individua...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of floggin...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentme...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary,...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most gr...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often no...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my h...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop t...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take yo...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Life is so unlike theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brin...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how t...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sug...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The man who worships mere wealth is a snob
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with the...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very mu...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleas...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony . . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emerge...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A small daily task if it really be daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit si...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some rem...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual es...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you ver...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, i...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has i...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that sh...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she sto...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlive...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire hi...
JOANNA TROLLOPE I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous...
JOANNA TROLLOPE You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
JOANNA TROLLOPE You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
JOANNA TROLLOPE I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
JOANNA TROLLOPE I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the ...
JOANNA TROLLOPE We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS [During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something ba...
ANTHONY ROBBINS The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
ANTHONY ROBBINS My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and...
ANTHONY ROBBINS I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
ANTHONY ROBBINS In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Action is the foundational key to all success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the b...
ANTHONY SAMPSON Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the...
ANTHONY ATALA