Logo
Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Scholars, Scholarship
category

There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

Random Quotes

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion its too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system. – Vera Farmiga

Category:
Religion

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen

Category:
Environment

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things. – Marion Cotillard

Category:
respect

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. – Andre Malraux

Category:
Business