Sarah Pinborough Quotes

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Sarah Pinborough

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• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Important
  • Hope

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Free
  • Law
  • Poverty

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  

  Charles Dickens

• The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Control

• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Diversity

• I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Science
  • Chinese

• There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

  

  Ben Rattray
  • People
  • Action
  • Cutting

• Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Life
  • Book
  • Taken

• With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

  

  Jessie Buckley

• What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

  

  Bruce Babbitt

• The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • World

• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.

  

  William Herschel
  • Needs
  • Sun

• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Morning
  • Star
  • Sun

• I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

  

  Sarah Pinborough
  • Truth
  • Reader
  • Clues