Janet Reno Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
-
I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
-
I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
-
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
-
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
-
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
-
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
-
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
-
You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
-
Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
-
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
-
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
-
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
-
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
-
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
-
When you are present, the world is truly alive.
-
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
-
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
-
With 'Captain America,' you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups, and it's tedious.
-
I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
-
I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.
-
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
-
I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
