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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• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• 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

• Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

  

  Alan Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • Different

• I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • School
  • Friend
  • Driving

• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Song
  • Perfect

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

  

  Donald E. Westlake