For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
‐‐ Cao Yu
For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
‐‐ Steve Erickson
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
‐‐ Uma Thurman
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
‐‐ Boris Becker
For a year, I was the world's worst assistant to a talent manager. I was awful at it. Really disorganized. Just not the person you want at the front desk of your office.
‐‐ Kyle Bornheimer
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
‐‐ Norah Jones
For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.
‐‐ Jerry Harrison
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
‐‐ Carl Jung
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
‐‐ Lisa Morton
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis
For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken
For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
‐‐ John Zorn
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
‐‐ Omar Bongo
For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
‐‐ Ron Silver
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
‐‐ Franz Wright
For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.
‐‐ Jeremy Miller
For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not.
‐‐ Sarah Hall
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
‐‐ Marie de France
For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
‐‐ Marisa Miller
For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.
‐‐ Robin Wright
For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.
‐‐ Scott Bakula
For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'
‐‐ Jon Seda
For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.
‐‐ Anna Gunn
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
‐‐ Bill Gates
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
‐‐ Richard Attias
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
‐‐ Natalia Tena
For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?
‐‐ Tony Buzan
For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
‐‐ Jay Samit
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
‐‐ Conrad Black
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
‐‐ Philip Roth
For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce
For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
‐‐ Kage Baker
For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
‐‐ David Harewood
For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
‐‐ Ferdinand Mount
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust
For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.
‐‐ Lori Wilde
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
‐‐ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For all men would be cowards if they durst.
‐‐ John Wilmot