A Quote by Gail Sheehy

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

Gail Sheehy

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Gail Sheehy
American - Writer
Born: November 27, 1937

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.

Joe Scarborough

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Juvenal

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Junius

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Paulo Coelho

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Marcus Aurelius

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Lenny Kravitz

My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.

Marie de France

I thought I would make good songs. Then I made Black Heart' and it was praised a lot. I love doing it and it is my passion.

Sara Khan

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV.

Steven Knight

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Rollo May

Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the Italians, the Spanish, and the Germans think. Somehow it's still got that cultural primacy. I feel that too: to get praised in France is better than to get praised anywhere else.