Brad Meltzer Quotes

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Good
  • God
  • Trying

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Work
  • Passion

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• It's great fun to play with a really good band.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fun

• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Enjoy

• I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Me
  • Running
  • Serious

• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Training

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Short

• Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Time

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.

  

  John Hagel III
  • People
  • World
  • High

• You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Soul

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Flow
  • Charge

• I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Forever