David Baldacci Quotes

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

David Baldacci

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• One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • You
  • Need

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Sometimes
  • Being
  • Own

• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Happiness

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Environment

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • God
  • Country
  • Truth

• It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Life
  • Free
  • Creative

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Air
  • Now

• The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Up
  • Black

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • Mind
  • History
  • Age

• I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Night
  • You

• dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform

  

  Don Marquis
  • Fear
  • Humanity
  • Boss

• I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

  

  David Baldacci