John Corey Whaley Quotes

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Republican
  • Offensive

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Want
  • You
  • Numbers

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Friends

• I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Future

• I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion.

  

  Kevin Nash
  • Bad
  • Gym
  • motivation

• I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• What I've been saying to people is that I write it.

  

  Topher Grace
  • People
  • Write

• Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Team