Jane Smiley Quotes

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

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• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Picture
  • Process

• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Attention
  • Difficult

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Wish

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • God
  • Always
  • Waiting

• Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Precious

• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Workers

• You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Think
  • You

• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• Kein Mensch kann sich selbst je verstehen, denn dazu müßte er aus sich selbst herausgehen, dazu müßte das Subjekt des Erkennens und Wollens Objekt werden können: ganz wie, um das Universum zu verstehen, ein Standpunkt noch außerhalb des Universums erforderlich wäre.

  

  Otto Weininger

• I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.

  

  Jeff Coffin Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Music
  • Service
  • Audience

• Saepius illareligio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.

  

  Lucretius

• In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Listening

• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

  

  Jane Smiley