Sara Paretsky Quotes
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.Sara Paretsky
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
Octavia Spencer -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
Carlo Ratti -
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee -
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards -
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London -
I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
Zac Brown Band -
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso -
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. Salinger -
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
Gary Wolf -
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown -
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
Abdus Salam
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
Katherine Kelly -
There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
Queen Latifah -
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.
John Hillcoat -
Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Andrew Marvell -
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
Sara Paretsky