Sara Paretsky Quotes
The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.Sara Paretsky
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
Viktor Orban -
I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
Randy Houser -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield -
I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
Lady Gaga -
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat Metheny -
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman -
I like fighters who come to fight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
Randeep Hooda
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I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
Queen Latifah -
I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
Owain Yeoman -
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
Walter Kirn -
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong -
As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
Ramakrishna -
The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
Jacob Bronowski
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If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
Claude Monet -
Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.
Jerry Reinsdorf -
I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.
Arfi Lamba -
There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
Madame de Stael -
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
Sara Paretsky