N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.”
“No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.”
“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.”
“No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.”
“No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.”
Source: Cinq Mars ...
“No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value to me will these discontented pages be? The book, the vow, are worth no more than one is worth oneself. One can never be sure of saving one's soul by writing. One may go writing on and on with a soul already lost.”
Source: Our Ancestors
“No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”
“No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”
Source: Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7
“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.”
“No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts.”
“No wyverns meant no fireweed. And no fireweed meant no cure.”
Source: Enchanted Flames
“No. Ya voló y se perdió. Y los pájaros que volaron cerca se convirtieron en cuervos de tanto dolor que sus alas batieron.”
Source: Cartas por el cielo
“No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comfort to know ..." He hesitated, and I reached up to smooth the rumpled hair off his face.
"To know what?"
"That should the need come, you might mourn for me that way," he said softly.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
“No yesterday can hold tomorrow’s sun captive to a horizon from which it cannot rise.”
“No yesterdays on the road.”
“No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.”
“No, you are saying to yourselves what a bore he is, what use is he to society? He has no money, he has no pretty wife, no good conversation, no tips on the stockmarket. He's a useless fardel on society.... The artist is a fardel.”
Source: Manhattan Transfer
“No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.”
Source: Angelfire
“No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“No, you don’t get it: we can have you put in prison forever without paying anything. If you pay the bribe for the crewmembers, we won’t pull those strings. Then you can pay for your own release... Goodbye citizen Ping, take heart you are helping two of your compatriots. Even a bad egg like you can aid the motherland.”
“No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.”
Source: The Evil We Love
“No you don't," he said. "The corpses can wait."
I wasn't sure if he was referring to me or the screen. I would've asked him to clarify but, Jack's lips were suddenly very busy moving against Nikki's. I resisted the urge to dry-heave and looked up at the sky, the trees, the buses anywhere that wouldn't trigger the upchuck reflex.
Jack needed to learn some manners. Damn epic love.”
Source: Neverfall
“No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.”
“No you don't understand anything! A week ago, I knew exactly who I was, what I was, and maybe that was a worthless cyborg, but at least I knew that. And now ... now I'm Lunar, I'm a Lunar who supposedly might have magic but can't use it, and now there's this insane queen who for some reason wants to kill me.”
Source: Cinder
“No. You hurt people because you didn't have any idea what love really was. You were trying to understand it in the only way you knew how. It’s horrible, yes. But it’s forgivable. I forgive you. I forgive a thousand worse things you may have done. I can forgive anything.”
“No, you idiot! If you love Rachel as much as you do, then you need to be that blue jay for her.”
“No you, is love.”
“No! You mean you're the late CHarlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.”
“No, you're forgetting,' said the Spirit. 'That was not how you began. Light itself was your first love: you loved paint only as a means of telling about light”
“No, you're not a bad person," he said. "And Richter isn't a bad person, and I'm not a bad person. We're just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”
Source: Made You Up
“No, you're not dreaming.
It's a real place.
Small and beautiful.
Now go see for yourself.
BARBADOS”
“No, you're not going to be able to save your way to rich. But you can save yourself out of a paycheck-to-paycheck cycle. And that is the very first step to feeling truly confident in your personal finances - and to getting you out of a lot of really desperate situations.”
Source: Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life
“No, you're not, Marissa says. You were just the victim of the blatant misogynistic and ridiculous hierarchy that is high school in contemporary society. You have to take the power back.”
Source: One Night That Changes Everything
“No, you're not numb. In fact, you are quite the opposite. You feel things so extraordinarily with the very power of your imagination that by the time they occur in real life, the tangible event simply cannot compare to the feeling you made with your mind.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“No, you're the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye: yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you. - Diana”
“No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97”
Source: The Last of the Mohicans
“No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.”
Source: The Mad Ship
“No, you two always get in the way of my brilliance,” the Chrome man said to himself, looking at his wife and daughter, stabbing the heart in the center of the table with a fork. “I have no human heart anymore, and you cannot torture me.”
Hubert cut the heart, filleting it, yet there was no blood or Chrome liquid; it was empty.
Then, Hubert threw the heart at the wall, but it returned to the table like it was not cut at all.
Then the room became dark, and Hubert’s face dishevels, and he drinks more tea. There is one dim light in the room as he does so, with his face toward the table.
Sennin appeared only to Dorothy’s eye, saying, “See how discontent in one room brings ruin?”
Dorothy replied as she approached the next door, gentle and softly, “More like blissful delusion.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?”
Source: Broken
“No, YOU were right. I'm impulsive. I always have been.'
He tossed her hat to the ground and rested his forehead on hers. 'And as much as that drives me mad with fear, I love it about you--that where I am cautious, you are bold; that where I think and never act, you charge ahead.”
Source: The Lost Heiress