Jim Butcher Quotes
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.Jim Butcher
Quotes to Explore
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
Barry Corbin -
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan -
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver -
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
Damien Chazelle
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie -
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen -
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown -
As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
Gail Simmons -
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby -
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking -
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
Camille Paglia -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup
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Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. Seuss -
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton -
I like to make collages - paper collages.
Rachel True -
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
Barbara Corcoran -
In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.
Ben Dolnick -
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
Jim Butcher