Gayle Lynds Quotes

In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

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• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• '24' is such an iconic show.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Show
  • Iconic

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Science
  • Problem
  • New

• A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Past

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Long
  • Period

• The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • World
  • America
  • Know

• I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • University
  • Hiring

• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Hands
  • Books
  • Smell

• Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• ...You shouldn't clap, that was a lie... I like to tell lies. According to Shakira, hips don't lie. Which makes me a bundle of contradictions.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Lies

• The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,The hours go silently over our lifted faces,We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea.Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together.We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Together
  • High
  • Sleep

• I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Coffee

• The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Experience

• I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Problem

• A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Doing

• Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

  

  Eminem
  • Old
  • Slim
  • Initials

• Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

  

  Neko Case

• In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

  

  Gayle Lynds