Victor LaValle Quotes

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

Victor LaValle

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Good
  • Know
  • Player

• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

  

  John Maeda
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Wonder
  • Journey

• I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of song. It was simply about embracing real-life situations.

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Action
  • Violence

• In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Good
  • Journey
  • End