Jane Smiley Quotes
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
J. R. Smith
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
Hamza Yusuf
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love, Broke out, to showIts bright incipience sailing above,Still promising to solve, and satisfy,And set unchangeably in order. So To pile them back, to cry,Was hard, without lamely admitting howIt had not done so then, and could not now.
Philip Larkin
It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
Rachel Zoe
It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.
Deontay Wilder
My mom always let me watch movies that were probably slightly too mature for my age, but she wanted me to see different stories. We grew up with quite a hard life, so she wasn't afraid to show me that in movies.
Kaya Scodelario
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley
