David Grann Quotes

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

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• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • High
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Folly

• Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Black

• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Children
  • Love
  • Running

• I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Small

• The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Responsibility
  • Violence
  • Lies

• Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • California
  • Brotherhood

• Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.

  

  Daisy Ashford

• If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• The wind in which the dead leaves blow. Here I inhale profounder strength And as I am, I speak and move And things are as I think they are And say they are on the blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Wind
  • Blue
  • Blow

• The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Important
  • Long
  • Hate

• The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Eternity
  • League

• The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Chance
  • Save
  • Died

• And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."

  

  Brian Henson
  • Way
  • Artists
  • Plan

• We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Choice

• One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

  

  David Grann