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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• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Now
  • Talking
  • Numbers

• 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

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• 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

• It's a real concern, ... It's a problem. We've got to get it corrected because you won't win games up here turning the ball over and I'd still say those are two areas where we have not showed the kind of improvement I'd like -- turning the ball over and penalties. So it's something for a real focus from now until game time. In the regular season, we've got to try to find something to fix it.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Women

• I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Real
  • Night
  • Sober

• History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Song

• 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