Jim Crace Quotes
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
Jim Crace
Quotes to Explore
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
Cameron Russell
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles
In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
Uday Kotak
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
G. W. Bailey
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
J. August Richards
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
It's up to the audience. It always has been.
Kate Smith
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Wayne Brady
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
J. D. Vance
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett
For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.
John Ridley
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
Nathaniel Rich
Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
Alexander Stoddart
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
Jim Crace
