William Forrester Quotes

As we left the bar, we saw two men fighting at the wooden pump. One was short and stocky: he was pummelling a tall gangling creature with loose flapping arms ... Edwin Forrest was giving a much deserved beating to William de la Touche Clancey, the Tory sodomite.

Nevertheless, one black soldier at Fort Pillow, Private Ellis Falls, soon would attest that Forrest ordered the Confederates to “stop fighting,” and another Fort Pillow Federal, a Private Major Williams, would remember hearing a Confederate officer shout that the blacks should be killed and hearing another Confederate officer contradict him, saying Forrest had said the blacks should be captured and “returned to their masters.” Forrest,

Querido Jamal, Alguien que conocí escribió que abandonamos nuestros sueños por miedo a poder fracasar, o peor aún, por miedo a poder triunfar. Quiero decirte que aunque supe muy pronto que tú harías realidad tus sueños, jamás imaginé que yo, una vez más, haría realidad los míos. Las estaciones cambian, jovencito. Y aunque puede que haya esperado hasta el invierno de mi vida para ver las cosas que he visto este pasado año, no cabe duda de que habría esperado demasiado de no haber sido por ti. _ William Forrester

No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!” SIR SEAN CONNERY - William Forrester “Why is it that the words that we write for ourselves are always so much better than the words we write for others?” SIR SEAN CONNERY - William Forrester

No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think! — William Forrester, as played by Sean Connery in Finding Forrester

No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner

For example, nowadays Shakespeare is identified with all that is lofty and high brown about culture. However, on May 10, 1849, what is now known as the Astor Place Riots took place, and 25 people died over (among other things, of course) the issue of who was the best Shakespearean actor, the American Edwin Forrest of the English William Charles Macready. It would be foolish to try to paint current appraisals and reactions to Shakespeare and that riot as "effects" to Shakespeare. That is, however, what is done when talking about "media effects.