Owen King Quotes

Although it's depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-'Donnie Brasco' Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi.

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• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Violence
  • Will
  • Storm

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Father

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Think
  • Change
  • Running

• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feel

• The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.

  

  Angelus Silesius

• I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Thoughts

• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Free
  • Wise

• National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • House

• Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Latin

• There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• As a young woman, I just think there's something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Empowering

• The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Light
  • Strive
  • Sweetness

• Although it's depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-'Donnie Brasco' Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi.

  

  Owen King