Jake Arrieta Quotes

I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.

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• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • First
  • Flight
  • Backup

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Loved
  • First Time

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Life
  • You
  • Quarterback

• I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Different
  • Power
  • Always

• I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

  

  Major Owens
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Attitude

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Experience
  • Growth
  • Profound

• If you don't like me, it's your problem.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • You
  • Me
  • Problem

• Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Learning
  • Joy
  • Testing

• I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Child

• The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Moral

• Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Interesting

• He was once our trumpeter, now his bugle's dumb, Pile your arms beneath it, for the owlet light is come, We'll wander through the roses where we marched of old with Peterkin, We'll search the summer sunset where the Hybla beehives hum, And - if we meet a fairy there - we'll ask for news of Peterkin.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Light
  • Summer
  • Search

• Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

  

  Jincy Willett
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Time

• I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Learned
  • Human Beings

• Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation while celebrating rich traditions and cultural exchange.

  

  Elisa Sednaoui
  • Hope
  • Support
  • Innovation

• I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.

  

  Jake Arrieta