Victor LaValle Quotes

I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

Victor LaValle

• Time
• Spend
• Useful

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • World
  • Action

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • More
  • About
  • Over

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Me

• I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Fall
  • Deep

• When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Sailing

• I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Done
  • Said

• I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Die
  • Trust
  • Said

• 'I am. I think. I will.'

  

  Ayn Rand

• I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Spend
  • Useful