The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea one of the worlds most alluring bodies of water a rare gem among the oceans defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then youre on your way to being a Texan.

If a man happens to find himself he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.