Jess Walter Quotes

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Grow

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fashion

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Take

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Soul
  • Noble
  • Scenery

• Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Fly
  • Risks

• We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Company
  • Accountability

• I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Way
  • Rest

• When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Small
  • Moment
  • Circle

• I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Love
  • Friends
  • True

• Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Pain

• (After terrorist attacks in Mumbai) Terrorism is impossible to be stopped at all time. We will stop 99% of the attacks; 1% of the attacks will get through. You feel US has stopped all terrorist attacks? US is currently involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, where there are attacks every single day. On them. Not in US, but on them. The war has moved.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Time
  • War
  • Stop

• Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• True believer that I amI am blind, lead me on (lead me on)Blessed receiver of your loveI own my own timeAnd I've been holding on (holding on)Leave the word unspokenAnd the spell will not be broken.

  

  James Taylor
  • True
  • Broken
  • Blessed

• I didn't even have a portfolio, but I went to Tom Ford the next morning. He said, "I'd love you to come in with me. Get a lawyer." It was quite exciting, obviously, because it was a complete departure. But mind you, what he was looking for was the exact opposite of what I thought. My first collection for him was Cher-inspired. It was flower trousers, California, hippie cool, all the stuff I did at Oscar. It was making me sick. I wanted to see the other side of the spectrum. Tom was always very secure about the way he did things, so it was quite interesting for me.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Interesting
  • Morning
  • Flower

• My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.

  

  Clara Shih
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Wind

• Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Art
  • Giving

• I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

  

  Jess Walter