W. P. Kinsella Quotes

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

W. P. Kinsella

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.

  

  Flume
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • American
  • Think
  • Fall

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Girl

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Home
  • Dream

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Wish
  • Understanding
  • Angry

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Good
  • Done
  • King

• In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Good
  • Made
  • Quarters