David Grann Quotes

I look for stories everywhere.

David Grann

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• If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Change
  • Bravery

• After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Said

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Football
  • Young
  • Normal

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Spiritual
  • Natural
  • Fact

• I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Book
  • Horse

• I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Dad

• Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children

• Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Power
  • Strong

• Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Life
  • She
  • Die

• The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• If the world could remain within a frameLike a painting on a wall,Then I think we would see the beauty, thenWe would stand staring in aweAt our still lives posedLike a bowl of oranges,Like a story toldBy the fault lines and the soil.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Painting
  • Wall

• We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.

  

  David Harewood
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Power
  • Help
  • Exercise

• William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  

  Bob Harper
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Movie

• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Matter
  • Stars
  • Seems

• You can't be patient if you're not strong.

  

  Nick Bollettieri
  • Strong
  • Patient

• I look for stories everywhere.

  

  David Grann