James Lee Burke Quotes
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.James Lee Burke
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. Truett Cathy -
I no longer limit myself.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Dana Spiotta -
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
Kailash Kher -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor -
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
Aberjhani -
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
Ban Ki-moon -
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
K. Eric Drexler -
If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Natalia Vodianova
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Fay Vincent -
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
Barry Watson -
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Adam Hamilton -
In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
Karl Schroeder -
Philips, whose touch harmonious could removeThe pangs of guilty power and hapless love!Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more;Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before;Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Samuel Johnson -
Neither the current state nor the future prospects of this evolving order can be understood without an appreciation of its history.
Barry Eichengreen
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I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
Brad Garrett -
I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
Patti Smith -
Invention is the mother of all necessities.
Marshall McLuhan -
A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.
Daymond John -
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
James Lee Burke