Jean M. Auel Quotes

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• I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Prove
  • Encouragement

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Heart
  • Matter
  • Huge

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Choose

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Employment

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Like
  • King
  • Rule

• I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Family
  • Happy

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Path
  • Most

• I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Forget

• First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Up

• [End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]

  

  Larry Wall

• First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.

  

  Eric Andre
  • People
  • Remember
  • Stop

• There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

  

  James Lasdun

• The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fun

• When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Good

• To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Thinking
  • Person
  • Clear

• The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

  

  Jean M. Auel