John Corey Whaley Quotes

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

John Corey Whaley

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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • WIld
  • Sheriff

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Loved
  • First Time

• Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Problem

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I'm extremely accurate; that's one of my biggest strengths.

  

  Jared Goff

• Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

  

  Preston Manning
  • Knowledge

• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Desire
  • Gay
  • Melancholy

• I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • Small
  • Desire