Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.Gabrielle Zevin
Quotes to Explore
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. Wells -
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
Vicki Lawrence -
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill -
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson -
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence -
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Wendy Kopp
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
Laura Wade -
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher -
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Hannah Simone -
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
Lance Armstrong
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Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
John Adams -
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
Charles Stross -
I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.
Charlotte Gainsbourg -
We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.
Gabrielle Zevin