Jane Lindskold Quotes

I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.

Jane Lindskold

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Edge

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Voices

• My parents were very artistic, but busy.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Busy

• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Team
  • Said
  • Times

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Person

• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • End

• The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Understand

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • World
  • Development
  • Cyber

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Law

• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • History
  • Reputation

• My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Want
  • Parents
  • Cool

• I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Back

• I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Jazz
  • Workout
  • Ritual

• Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Listening

• I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Movie

• You’re supposed to get more conservative in your tastes as you get older, but I tend to go the other way. I listen to stuff that’s two steps away from white noise. But I must admit that I’ve been so busy with Napalm and personal things in recent years that I’ve not dug down into what’s going on. I’m a little disconnected at the minute but it’s not through choice, it’s through circumstance. Generally speaking, anything that’s nasty, horrible and confrontational is my bag.

  

  Barney Greenway Benediction
  • Way
  • Things
  • Bag

• I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.

  

  Jane Lindskold