Erin McKean Quotes

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

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• Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Different
  • Book
  • Reading

• The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • You
  • Like
  • Personality

• When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Process
  • Building

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • You
  • Intentions

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Work
  • Character

• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Decision
  • Fight
  • Same

• I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

  

  Gary Owen
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Always

• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Everything

• I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Look
  • Said

• When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Face

• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • Simple
  • Waiting
  • Funeral

• In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.

  

  Ismail Kadare
  • Change
  • Season
  • Rainbow

• When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Real
  • High
  • Model

• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Genius
  • Capacity
  • Pains

• The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Son
  • Scripture
  • Monsters

• Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

  

  Erin McKean
  • Difficult
  • Findings
  • Serendipity