Donald E. Westlake Quotes

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

Donald E. Westlake

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• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Myself
  • Film
  • Performance

• When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Art
  • You
  • Personal

• I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Working
  • Scared

• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Done
  • Man

• Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Books

• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Me
  • Sky

• One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Life
  • Great
  • Want

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Will
  • Strength
  • Physical

• LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Team
  • Win
  • Two

• Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Anger

• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • God
  • Gift

• There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Number

• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Important
  • Why
  • City

• The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Culture

• To use the established phrase, three months of uninterrupted happiness glided away-a phrase, though in frequent use, whose accuracy I greatly doubt ; there being no such thing as uninterrupted happiness any how or any where.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Doubt

• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Different
  • Done
  • Soul

• The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.

  

  William Bennett
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • People
  • Long
  • Giving

• We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

  

  George P. Shultz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Chinese

• Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

  

  Donald E. Westlake