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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

– Thomas Mann

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

– Rita Mae Brown

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

– Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

– Wally Lamb

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

– Charles Simmons

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

– Author Unknown

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

– Paul Newman

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

– Sir Ralph Richardson

After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers.

– Joe Moore

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

– Marcius Porcius Cato

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

– Henry Bromel

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

– H. G. Wells

After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

– John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

– Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

– Susan Sontag

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

– George Bernard Shaw

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.

– Peggy Joyce

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

– Cyril Connolly

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

– Gloria Swanson

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

– Billie Holiday

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

– Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

– James Abram Garfield

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

– Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

– Ellen Goodman

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