#shin

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#author #avoid #being #course #day

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#duties #george #george w #george washington #god

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#bear #between #clear #connection #establishing

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#fortunately #his #hundred #kerry #matters

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. ↗

— Peter Chernin

#business #business opportunities #coordination #editorial #efficiencies

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#god #grows #loves #never #old

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#next #place #pushing #stylistic #where

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago. ↗

— David Knopfler

#could #curve #decades #doing #duck