Jay Parini Quotes

I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

Jay Parini

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • First

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Numbers

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Star
  • First
  • Week

• Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
  • You
  • Financial

• When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

  

  T. H. White
  • Men
  • Equality
  • Slaughter

• If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Strong
  • Australia
  • Currency

• I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Children
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Career

• I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study