Scott Turow Quotes

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

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• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Development
  • Ignore
  • Product

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Community
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Strength

• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Need
  • Paper
  • Pen

• I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Home

• I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Think
  • Look
  • Admire

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Selfish

• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Words
  • Change

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Society
  • Like

• During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • School
  • Art

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stress

• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Theology
  • Sovereign

• At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Government
  • Argument
  • Capacity