Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.

To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm... you are very lucky!

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

You're good, you're real good.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

Every actor gets their due.

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

People wanted to move to America because of Michael Jackson. Industry changed, the music industry changed, because of Michael Jackson. That's a gift to us, and, you know, I am concerned that the Good Lord may not send another one because we did not take good care of him.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.