Melissa Bank Quotes

I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

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• If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • America
  • Red

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Universe

• My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Me
  • Goal

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Dad
  • Vote
  • Mentor

• I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Doubt
  • Listen
  • Instincts

• It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Taken
  • Stage

• Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bed

• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Modern

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Actor

• I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • American
  • Fear

• Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Real
  • She
  • Funny

• Be the chief but never the lord.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Never
  • Leadership
  • Lord

• Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Good
  • Great
  • Acting

• People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People

• He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Understanding

• Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Up
  • Different
  • Education

• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Idea
  • Act
  • Afford

• Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

  

  Polly Berrien Berends

• Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.

  

  Brandy Johnson
  • Heart
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Goals
  • Writer
  • Sentence