Sarah Waters Quotes

Life is crap but, every day is an experience.

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Hollywood
  • Joke
  • Naked

• I'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Public
  • Educate

• It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Important
  • Know
  • Yourself

• If you never budge, don't expect a push.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Push

• He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Christian
  • Compassion
  • Meditation

• Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fall
  • Made
  • Jump

• Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

  

  Lori Foster
  • People
  • Thanks

• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Consumers
  • Flame
  • Peak

• I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Life is crap but, every day is an experience.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Life
  • Experience