Jim Crace Quotes

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Drawing
  • Old

• Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Feel

• Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Afraid
  • Anyway
  • Sucks

• The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Invest
  • Portfolio

• Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Know
  • Presence

• My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Expected
  • Grandpa
  • Planned

• On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Know
  • Nobody

• I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cook

• I hate to cook and love to eat.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Eat

• I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Problems

• With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Important
  • Fashion

• God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  

  Avicenna
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Knowledge

• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• The way the press works, people don't like to review or talk about EPs. It's considered, 'Why don't you just wait for the record?' But for someone who's creating, and the audience, they can get material quicker. I almost feel like putting out a few songs every couple months might be better than putting out an album every year or two.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Why
  • Couple

• I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Long
  • Done
  • Black

• Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Hurt

• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  

  Kishore Kumar
  • People
  • Movie
  • Knows

• I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Friends

• I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

  

  Jim Crace