Ernest Hemingway vs. Rowan Atkinson
Read 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 9 attributed to Rowan Atkinson. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Ernest Hemingway alongside 9 attributed to Rowan Atkinson. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: art, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #1194: "Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, …"
Attributed to Rowan Atkinson, entry #7917: "I cry too much and I find it strange. It must be indicative of some issue within me that I’ve yet to identify. Whether it’s crowds or whether it’s people being nice… Hospitals mak…"
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Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The…"
#love"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,…"
#love"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
#love"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
#love"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
#love"Easy writing makes hard reading."
#books"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought…"
#mind"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
#art"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. ... Thus you remember …"
#knowledge"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
#life"Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you…"
#work"Hemingway's Gravesite"
#death"The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
#time"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
#writing"SparkNotes of The Old Man And The Sea"
#music"Grace under pressure."
#literature"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work har…"
#time"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, wil…"
#writing"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he…"
#life"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living w…"
#deathRowan Atkinson
1955
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian and writer. He first gained success on the sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), before going on to play the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–present).
"I cry too much and I find it strange. It must be indicative of some issue within me that I’ve yet to identify. Whether it’s crowds or whether it’s people bei…"
#philosophy"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things; like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. I remember …"
#time"I am getting older, and naturally has to get older with me, and that's why I've done him very little in recent years. Because I don't particularly want him t…"
#time"The victimisation of individuals or corporations or groups of people is a very dangerous and difficult development. The fact that careers can be ruined and r…"
#art"When presented with an audience or a camera, usually disappeared, but by no means all the time. I can show you some outtakes of Blackadder or The Thin Blue L…"
#time"It’s the age-old dilemma of being known for doing a certain thing in a certain way. And even if people think, “Well, we could cast him in this role,” then th…"
#philosophy"are so uncompromising in their view of the world, which is why they are such a fantastically rich source of comedy. They are so relentless and so clear in th…"
#humor"Personally I suspect that I am highly unlikely to be arrested for whatever laws exist to contain free expression, because of the undoubtedly privileged posit…"
#wisdom"All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them."
#religion