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

• I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I could not be more thankful to those who voted me through and believed in me.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Thankful

• It's like, I go through life, and all these relationship that I have, they're more like acquaintances than they are true relationships. It's not fulfilling. I don't know. It's a very cold feeling at times, but it's what I'm comfortable with.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• It's up to the audience. It always has been.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Up
  • Always
  • Audience

• We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Help
  • Eternity
  • Understood

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

  

  David Baldacci