Quotes on Necessity

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

Author: Carl Bach

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Author: Robert Benchley

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Author: Daniel Defoe

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Author: Emily Dickinson

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Author: Marjory Douglas

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Author: Theophile Gautier

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Author: Anjelica Huston

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

Author: John Irving

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Author: George Lewes

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Author: Gabriel Marquez

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

Author: Jean-Marie Messier

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

Author: William Occam

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Author: Sallust

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Author: Sophocles

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Author: Steve Swallow

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Author: Harry Truman

Sweatpants are to adulting what glitter is to children - a necessity

Author: Mindy Kaling

Success is fantastic, but you can’t try and picture millions'-worth ideas with just a bank's focus on interest!

Author: Oliver Stone