Famous quotes containing the words write and/or command:
“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (15791688)
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