Quotes from authors born on January 31st It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor successyeartake Change image and share on social It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do. Chad Channing comfortablegood Change image and share on social From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. Kenzaburo Oe ariseproductionpoint share on social We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. Thomas Merton factbeginproperly Change image and share on social People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient. Ernie Banks peopleyearpatient Change image and share on social I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work. Joel Courtney hugenerdsteven Change image and share on social Quotes from authors died on January 31st Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you. Kage Baker industryhearchance share on social A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. Kage Baker generationhousesuccessful share on social Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn lowwriteraise Change image and share on social Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. Samuel Goldwyn westernpicturemessage Change image and share on social Tiggers don't like honey. A. A. Milne tiggershoney Change image and share on social I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. A. A. Milne escapepunchgive Change image and share on social The French cook; we open tins. John Galsworthy frenchcookopen Change image and share on social A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy actionthinkstate Change image and share on social Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. Coretta Scott King justicepiecepeople Change image and share on social Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. Coretta Scott King antiracismdignity Change image and share on social I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. Jean Giraudoux problemmanagementpart Change image and share on social When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other. Jean Giraudoux superficialdisappearchange share on social
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor successyeartake Change image and share on social
It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do. Chad Channing comfortablegood Change image and share on social
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. Kenzaburo Oe ariseproductionpoint share on social
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. Thomas Merton factbeginproperly Change image and share on social
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient. Ernie Banks peopleyearpatient Change image and share on social
I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work. Joel Courtney hugenerdsteven Change image and share on social
Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you. Kage Baker industryhearchance share on social
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. Kage Baker generationhousesuccessful share on social
Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn lowwriteraise Change image and share on social
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. Samuel Goldwyn westernpicturemessage Change image and share on social
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. A. A. Milne escapepunchgive Change image and share on social
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy actionthinkstate Change image and share on social
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. Coretta Scott King justicepiecepeople Change image and share on social
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. Coretta Scott King antiracismdignity Change image and share on social
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. Jean Giraudoux problemmanagementpart Change image and share on social
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other. Jean Giraudoux superficialdisappearchange share on social
