Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

Elizabeth McCracken

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• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • House
  • Control
  • New

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Language is fun; it's fun to try.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Language
  • Try

• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Money
  • Book
  • Stock

• I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Live
  • Cancer

• I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Start

• I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • American
  • True
  • Want

• You ain't got the answers Sway!

  

  Kanye West

• Fair use is not in the law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Real
  • School
  • Art

• Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • People
  • Culture
  • Economy

• But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Sex

• Be original. That’s all that matters........Take inspiration from others, but always make something new.

  

  Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg At the Gates
  • Inspiration
  • New
  • Original

• I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken