Brad Thor Quotes

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Look

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Characters
  • Core
  • Ensemble

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Reason

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Expression

• I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Great
  • Live
  • Musicians

• The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Special
  • London
  • Royal

• Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Universe
  • Evolution
  • Product

• The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Write

• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
  • Very
  • Vocation

• If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Bank
  • iPhone

• The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Moral
  • Social
  • View

• Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Pink

• I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Week
  • Graduation
  • Globes

• But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Believe
  • Silence
  • Secret

• Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Language
  • Drug
  • Social

• I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Interesting
  • Records

• There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

  

  Brad Thor