David James Duncan Quotes
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
David James Duncan
Quotes to Explore
-
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko
-
I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. Watt
-
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
-
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis
-
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
-
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
-
High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
Walter O'Brien
-
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Jack Osbourne
-
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
-
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
Kate Winslet
-
If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins
-
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
Yuri Kochiyama
-
I've been a good player my whole life and expect to continue to work hard and continue to do everything that I have done and try not to take any steps back. Try to stay the course and be the best player and the best teammate and hopefully the best leader I can be, and play as well as I can.
Jared Goff
-
Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
Jordin Sparks
-
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
-
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
-
You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.
Asghar Farhadi
-
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
David James Duncan
