James Salter Quotes

Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.

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• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Friends

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • People
  • Good
  • Culture

• You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • People

• The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Good

• I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Words
  • Language
  • Learn

• I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

  

  James Salter
  • Trying

• Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.

  

  James Salter
  • People