Phil Klay Quotes
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Phil Klay
Quotes to Explore
-
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln
-
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell
-
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver
-
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Ban Ki-moon
-
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley
-
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer
-
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
-
One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
Dan Hill
-
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
Keanu Reeves
-
What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.
Alice Rivlin
-
Coffee is my water now.
Becky G
-
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Phil Klay