“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.” IfsAgeSpiritChoicesDoubtMastersOughtPagesNo DoubtVolumeEntry Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.” MenBookPayOughtPagesDiscovering Author:Peter Tait
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.” KnowsMindHas BeensTwoIdeasLastsEnjoyKnow HowWrittenHavensOughtPeriodsPagesGlorious Author:J. B. Priestley
“It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.” BelieveHardEnoughRememberWaterCan DoOne ThingOughtSafePagesCleanListsEndlessAdministrationAbortionAmendmentsFourthYou Can Do ItRestoringKentuckyMinersClean WaterFourth AmendmentSlag Author:Sara Paretsky
“I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.” ShouldBookLastsTearsOughtPagesCheatJournal Book:I Capture The Castle Source: I Capture The Castle
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” WritingIdeasLightWrittenOughtAchievementPaperPagesDifficultyWorthySentencesPrizeFlashCompositionRight PlaceParagraphLuminousRight WordsSingle SentenceSquanderingWriting WordsDifficulty Of Writing Author:Mark Twain