Janine di Giovanni Quotes

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • You
  • Question
  • Years

• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Live
  • Today

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Loved

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Work
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Star
  • Forever
  • Thought

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Personality

• Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,Gold that I never see;Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedgeThat will not shower on me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Long
  • High
  • Gold

• «Roads must be used by cars and airplanes must fly in airports.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Fly

• I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Time
  • Help
  • Doubt

• I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Done

• I don't know what it's like to be God - obviously …until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. … Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: 'I'm writing it now this scene in the Tardis. I'm writing it!' And that was amazing, it was wonderful.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Good
  • God
  • Writing

• How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Brother

• The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.

  

  James Salter
  • Good
  • Writing

• Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we waste our lives before we learn how to live?" "I am sure," he returned, "that we do not learn as fast as we are willing to learn. God does not force instruction upon us, but when we say as Luther did, 'More light, Lord, more light,' the light comes." I questioned myself after he had gone as to whether this could be true of me. Is there not in my heart some secret reluctance to know the truth lest that knowledge should call to a higher and a holier life than I have yet tried?

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Today
  • Words
  • Faith

• I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Time
  • Long

• In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

  

  Janine di Giovanni