Jason Epstein Quotes

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

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• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Best
  • Look
  • Makeup

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• I love Costco.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Costco

• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Ask
  • Costs

• With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Different
  • Man
  • Best

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Care
  • Because

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Focus

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • She
  • Truth
  • Woman

• We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Knowledge
  • Use
  • Therapy

• τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch

• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Rest
  • Wind
  • Graves

• It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Value
  • Logic
  • Evidence

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Society

• I'm a man without a corporation.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Man
  • Without
  • Corporation

• Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

  

  Jason Epstein