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
  • Slavery

• 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

• Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • She

• Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.

  

  George Kaiser
  • Learning
  • Brain
  • Development

• Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Motivational
  • Surround

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

  

  Michael Easton
  • Faith
  • Person
  • Writer

• 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