Sara Paretsky Quotes
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
Sara Paretsky
Quotes to Explore
-
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
-
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
Walter Lang
-
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
Carlene Carter
-
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
Rachel Cusk
-
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
-
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Pamela Anderson
-
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
-
I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
Larry Ellison
-
Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
Gary Bettman
-
The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
-
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.
Louise Jameson
-
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
Zach Braff
-
If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
Walt Mossberg
-
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
George W. S. Trow
-
I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.
Erica Jong
-
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
Sara Paretsky
