Sara Paretsky Quotes

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Sara Paretsky

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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Growing
  • Acceptance
  • Discomfort

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Message

• If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Knowledge
  • Path
  • Garden

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Speak

• In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • Control
  • Gun

• When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Country
  • America
  • Peculiar

• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • World
  • Writing
  • Financial