Christina Baker Kline Quotes

There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Friends

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Nobody
  • Superman
  • Anyone

• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Political

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Next
  • Landscape
  • Extinction

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People

• Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • History

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Tea

• There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
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