Jill McCorkle Quotes

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Jill McCorkle

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.

  

  Harry Browne
  • May
  • Want
  • Free

• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Done
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Path

• Different times need different types of leadership.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Different
  • Leadership
  • Need

• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Goals

• We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Know
  • Perfect
  • Emotions

• I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Diverse
  • Mac

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • World
  • War
  • Period

• I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Revered
  • Elder

• For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Financial
  • India
  • Markets

• PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Hope
  • Fear

• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Mind
  • Why

• Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.

  

  Jonathan Vilma
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Game

• I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Giving
  • Confidence

• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Game
  • Feeling

• Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Perfect
  • Floating
  • Feels Like

• All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

  

  Jill McCorkle