Daniel Woodrell Quotes

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

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• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Me
  • Court
  • Skeptics

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alive
  • Evolve

• I believe clothing tell a story.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Believe
  • Story
  • I Believe

• Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Art
  • Worship
  • Him

• While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Awesome

• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
  • Without

• The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Running
  • Like
  • Woods

• Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Being
  • Reporting

• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Why

• Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, Eliciting the still sustaining pomps Of speech which are like music so profound They seem an exaltation without sound.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Profound

• Every heart to love will come But like a refugee.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Heart

• I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

  

  EMA
  • Show
  • Performance
  • Frustrated

• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  

  Plutarch
  • Conscious
  • Wounds
  • Repentance

• It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.

  

  Nilsson
  • Happens
  • Songwriting
  • Melody

• The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Nature
  • Spring

• It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

  

  Daniel Woodrell