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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Power
  • Truth

• What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Work
  • Country
  • Party

• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Abuse

• Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Hope

• I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.

  

  James Lankford
  • People
  • Believe

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Way
  • Passion

• All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Mercenary
  • Flatterers

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

  

  Elizabeth McCracken