#lists

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#areas #burned #business #business sense #capitalists

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#division #i #idealists #never #realists

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#could #how #i #i can #journalists

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making. ↗

— Ben Stein

#like #lists #making #sound

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i see #journalism #journalists #laborers #literature

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists