Brian McKnight Quotes

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

Brian McKnight

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• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Ideas

• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Real
  • Feeling

• For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Lucky

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  

  Iain Banks
  • World
  • Years
  • Club

• I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • America
  • Together
  • Myself

• Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Lost

• When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • World
  • Anxiety

• Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Fear
  • End

• I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • War
  • More
  • Silent

• In the real world, children love me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Study
  • Discipline

• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Loved

• I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • World
  • Professional
  • Said

• Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • See

• The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Remember
  • America

• The poster first of all justified its existence on the grounds of utility, and should it further aspire to beauty of line and colour, may not our hoardings claim kinship with the galleries, and the designers of affiches pose proudly in the public eye as the masters of Holland Road or Bond Street Barbizon (and, recollect, no gate money, no catalogue)?

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Money
  • May
  • Road

• I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.

  

  Louis Freeh

• A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

  

  Paul Goodman
  • Way
  • Teacher
  • Response

• You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dream

• I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

  

  Brian McKnight