John Sandford Quotes

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

John Sandford

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Star

• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  

  Ovid
  • Difficult
  • Guilt
  • How

• I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll tell me and give me their suggestions and what they think.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Think
  • Me
  • Give

• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  

  Manning Marable
  • May
  • America
  • Black

• I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • New
  • Paid
  • Dues

• I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Business
  • Where
  • Last

• I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • God
  • Never
  • Old

• Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care,Thou didst seek after me, - that Thou didst wait,Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate,And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?

  

  Lope de Vega
  • Winter

• Man wants little, nor that little long.

  

  Edward Young
  • Long

• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Writing

• As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Great
  • May
  • Past

• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is - which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights who will grow up to be an adult.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Sex

• Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Health
  • Depression
  • Blow

• When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

  

  Jason Reitman

• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Comedy

• No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Great
  • Society

• I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

  

  Bryan Clay

• I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People

• When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • People
  • Friend

• When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Values
  • Please

• Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • Help
  • Science
  • Communication

• Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • History
  • Persons
  • Definitions

• With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

  

  John Sandford