David Grann Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
-
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
-
I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
-
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
-
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
-
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
-
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
-
If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
-
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
-
If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
-
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
-
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
-
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
-
You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
-
'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
-
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
-
I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.
-
Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
-
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
-
I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.
-
Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.
-
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
-
I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
