Crawford Rule

Famous quotes containing the words crawford and/or rule:

    [Asked by an interviewer, “What do YOU want to be?”]: What people want me to be.
    —Joan Crawford (1908–1977)

    It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)