Now Quotes - page 11

Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose -
Anything goes. (Cole Porter)

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

Carrie Underwood

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Lawrence Lessig

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Lawrence Lessig

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...

Poul Anderson

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.

Lu Xun

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

Robert Browning

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Jeanette Winterson

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. (Ernest Hemingway)

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

Ernest Hemingway

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Djuna Barnes

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.

Oliver Goldsmith

The New Women I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . . They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be and now I see them, I hate them.

Fay Weldon

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.

Joan Rivers

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Richard Bach

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. (John Templeton)

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

Karen Armstrong

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Paul McCartney

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