Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. AudenTags: books writing memory appreciation forget notability quality
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Ray BradburyTags: imagination writing writers quality skill
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
John RuskinTags: quality
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: economics quality business
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor humanity quality inhumanity
All good work requires self-revelation.
Sidney LumetTags: creativity quality hard-work self-revelation realization
When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad.
Laura Klos SokolTags: quality americans enjoyment
Die Kategorie der Qualität ist für die Masse zu fein; sie setzt sie um in die Kategorie der Quantität.
Hans DelbrückI am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
R. Buckminster FullerBetter to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave FlaubertTags: writing writers reader quality taste
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