"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."

Being, Fiction, Tax, Income

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."

Exlpore more Being quotes

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Being, Choice, Focus, Future

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Being, Nothing

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Country, Nothing

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Being, Key, Language

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

John Irving, American Novelist

Being, Habits, Worth

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Being, Perfection

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Being, Nothing

Explore more quotes by Herman Wouk

"Write a page a day. It will add up."

Writing, Day, Will

"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."

Wealth, Inheritance, Tradition

"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."

Man, Men, Americans, Pressure

"I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge."

Humor, Challenge, Writing

"Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth."

Religion, People

"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."

Being, Fiction, Tax, Income

"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot."

Mind, President, Quick

"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."

Interest, Judaism, Literature, Sons

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."

Illusion, Reality

"Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good."

War,