James Salter Quotes

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.

James Salter

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• Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • World
  • Dream
  • Crazy

• I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Film
  • Feel

• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Same
  • Media
  • Gentleman

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Think
  • Control

• You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

  

  Ice Cube
  • She
  • Kids
  • Woman

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Violence
  • See
  • Gun

• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Passion

• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Sound
  • Picnic

• I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Up
  • Service
  • Doing

• Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Night
  • Speak

• The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Relation

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Business
  • Value

• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Dangerous
  • Spirits
  • Insincerity

• For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Time
  • Long
  • Travel

• When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.

  

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
  • Different
  • School
  • Dangerous

• If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Money
  • Brother

• Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Good
  • Real
  • League

• As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.

  

  James Salter