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

• Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Teenager
  • Generations

• I don't like karaoke. But maybe that's why I'm so perfect for 'Lip Sync Battle,' because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Why
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
  • Uncomfortable

• I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Christian
  • I Believe

• 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