John Lescroart Quotes
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
-
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
-
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
-
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
-
Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
-
Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
-
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
-
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-
It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
-
Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
-
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
-
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
-
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
-
'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
-
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
-
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.
-
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
-
Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.
-
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.
-
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
