“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
Oscar Wilde
“On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?”
“Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.”
Jean Chretien
“In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.”
Seth Mydans
