Pete Hamill Quotes
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
Pete Hamill
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
Dakota Johnson
-
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
-
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
-
On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
Felicity Jones
-
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito
-
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg
-
When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
Maceo Parker
-
We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
Felipe VI of Spain
-
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
K. Flay
-
I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
Yvonne Strahovski
-
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz
-
We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
Chris Stapleton
-
A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines
-
When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.
Im Dong-Hyun
-
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
Alan Price
-
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
Bayard Taylor
-
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
Pete Hamill
