Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I think that fiction has a certain power.

Jesmyn Ward

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Present
  • Doing
  • Professional

• You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Power

• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Action
  • Limits

• It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Shame

• The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

  

  Jason Alexander

• When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Together

• I think that fiction has a certain power.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Power