John Irving Quotes

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

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• Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Look

• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Secret
  • Somebody

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gay

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Art
  • Sadness

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
  • Selling
  • Restaurant

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Single
  • Solution
  • Eradicate

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Destiny

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Me
  • Goal

• I secretly want to be a rapper!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Want
  • Rapper
  • Secretly

• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • American
  • Giving

• I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

  

  Gary William Flake
  • Always
  • First
  • Before

• I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Work
  • Unknown

• Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Destiny
  • Warrior

• My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Wonder

• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  

  James Herbert
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Catholic

• What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Morning

• Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.

  

  David Pilbeam
  • View
  • Ideology
  • Theories

• My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

  

  John Irving