Jim Butcher Quotes

Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

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• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Artist
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Thinking
  • Independent

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

  Gail Devers
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Effort

• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Challenge
  • Try
  • Mountains

• I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Everything

• 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Films
  • Favorite
  • Runner

• 'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Film
  • Remade
  • Lisa

• Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Past
  • Day

• My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

  

  Karl Urban
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Words
  • I Can

• It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Doubt
  • Journey

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History

• If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.

  

  Cyril Kamar
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Inspiration

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Chipotle is based on a very simple idea: We start with great ingredients, prepare them using classic cooking techniques, and serve them in a way that allows people to get exactly what they want.

  

  Steve Ells
  • Idea
  • Cooking
  • Techniques

• To this day, I remember vividly Missy Elliott, Ludacris, and my grandma riding in a golf cart to set. My grandma went back to Ohio and told her bowling friends, 'Guess what? I was riding to set with Missy and Ridiculous!'

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Golf

• Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

  

  Jim Butcher