Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.Van Wyck Brooks
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
Irvine Welsh -
Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
Maggie Hassan -
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
Laura Linney -
I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
Garth Davis -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
Karin Slaughter -
I pick up on other people's discomfort.
Carice van Houten -
You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Harlan Coben -
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
Adam Driver -
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
Zaha Hadid -
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys -
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
Walter Lang -
The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
James Garner -
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes reading poetry seem more natural.
William Empson -
Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.
Jason Aaron -
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
Ian Rankin -
Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.
Anthony Doerr -
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks