David Grann Quotes

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

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• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • America
  • Nothing
  • Congress

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Brands
  • Surviving

• People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • True
  • Inspired

• There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Productivity

• Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Gewönlich wird eine Entdeckung nicht auf den einfachsten, sondern auf einem komplizierten Wege gemacht; die einfachen Fälle zeigen sich erst später.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • Die

• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Wisdom
  • Fool

• It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Career

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Words
  • Freedom

• Blue Moon,You knew just what I was there for,You heard me saying a prayer for,Someone I really could care for.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Prayer
  • Moon
  • Blue

• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • People
  • Lonely

• The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

  

  Jennifer Beals

• A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

  

  Walsham How
  • Wife
  • Wealth
  • Snail

• One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Song
  • City
  • Singing

• However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Words
  • Answer
  • Knock

• I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

  

  David Grann