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

• 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

• It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

  

  Hal David
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Problems

• When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Memories

• I think Taeyang developed this image as a dancing singer, mostly because of records like 'Only Look At Me,' and 'Where U At.' To me, personally, I think Taeyang tried to make a change on 'I Need a Girl.' It gets a little mellower.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Girl

• The Seal, she lounges like a bride, Much too docile, there's no doubt; Madame Récamier, on side, (if such she has), and bottom out.

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • She
  • Doubt

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

  

  James Salter