Donald E. Westlake Quotes

Brian had all that day to figure out what was going on, and yet he didn't.

Donald E. Westlake

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Difference
  • White
  • Rice

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Beginning
  • Conscious
  • Been

• My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Good
  • Respect

• Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Happy
  • Light
  • Green

• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Motherhood

• Oh, than to enjoy a storm like thisThere's nothing I would rather, Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!Or else leave room for Father.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Father
  • Storm

• We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!

  

  Zane Grey

• I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Long

• Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Real
  • Matter
  • Planets

• Hitchens: 'Let me ask a question to Mr Heston: can he tell me, clockwise, what countries have frontiers and borders with Iraq, starting from Kuwait?'

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Question

• Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Design

• Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
  • Life
  • Age
  • Single

• I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Future

• I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Shopping

• Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Time

• Brian had all that day to figure out what was going on, and yet he didn't.

  

  Donald E. Westlake