“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsMeanSaidTwoUseLawThreeFatherTakenDoubtFiguresFieldsHabitAbuseObviousObservationSpeakersQuotationsToilRemarksWhen In DoubtWildeBernard ShawUse And Abuse Author:Nigel Rees
“Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.” IfsImportantSometimesFiguresHabitMaking ChangesEnglishmenScotchWelshUnchangeableGreat ChangeBernard ShawDisraeli Author:Raymond Postgate
“I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.” GuyMistakeFiguresHabitVulnerableMaking Mistakes Author:LeBron James
“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.” HomeAttitudeFiguresHabitAuthorityIrelandAvoidanceFigure SkatingAuthority Figures Author:Seamus Heaney
“I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayEasyDifficultSoundAbilityFiguresHabitCreaturesBad HabitsHabitualAbility To Change Author:Eva Mendes
“I don't think I've seen that sort of character in a long time in this genre because again, there was a time when you could have quirky, strange characters that you grew to love, you didn't quite understand, you know, and then all of a sudden they became almost cardboard cutouts for awhile. You kind of know the guy, what his deal is - this guy's hard to figure out. He has some strange habits, but, you learn to love him and you discover more about him, where it comes from.” ThinkingKnowsKindLongHardCharacterGuyDealsLove YouFiguresStrangeGrewHabitLong TimeGenreNow And ThenThis GuyQuirky Author:Antoine Fuqua
“I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.” WritingTryingFirstsMightWeekFiguresHabitPagesSentencesBad Habits Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.” WritingArtStillsBigsLeftWaitingPaySupportFiguresHugeHabitLuckyBillsTheatre Author:Debra Dean
“I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.” FiguresHabitFilingSorting Author:Barack Obama
“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindMightRealizingViewsCommonEffortStepsFiguresHabitOppositesPoint Of ViewCuriousBe KindWorthwhileFirst StepsOpen MindedBeing Open Minded Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.” PastPassionEvilMemoriesEnemyFiguresPrideHabitConscienceDeedsPursueSelfishnessMalice Author:George A. Smith