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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
— Shelby Foote
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
One foote is better then two crutches.
— George Herbert
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
— Tony Horwitz
Everyone needs an editor.
— Timothy Foote
Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake
— Shelby Foote
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
— Horton Foote
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
— Samuel Foote
A lot of writing is thinking.
— Horton Foote
Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.
— Samuel Foote
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
— Shelby Foote
One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
I never cared what kind of grade I got.
— Shelby Foote
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
— Shelby Foote
Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.
— Shelby Foote
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
— Samuel Foote
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
— Horton Foote
Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
— George William Foote
For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
— Horton Foote
Writing is the thing that props me up.
— Horton Foote
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
— Shelby Foote
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
— George William Foote
Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
— Horton Foote
did; then we'll take it to the next level.
— Steven Foote
A fact is not a truth until you love it.
— Shelby Foote
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
— George Herbert
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot
— Shelby Foote
Yes, there is work enough for all of us and today is no time to be idle
— Martha Foote Crowe
A few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
— Alice Foote MacDougall
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
— Horton Foote
On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.
— Shelby Foote
I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
— Shelby Foote
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
— Samuel Foote