Scott Turow Quotes

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Hope
  • Play
  • Finish

• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Support
  • Right
  • Works

• Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Done

• Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Serious

• It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Weird

• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

  

  Chanakya
  • Work
  • Why

• Everyone is open for consideration, ... I think we are going to look at people who would do a commendable job and honor the wishes of our residents. I know the administration will act quickly and council will do the same.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • People
  • Job
  • Open

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• At first you think, 'Gosh, monkeys, that's so kind of incredible … But you started to kind of feel a little bit, not competitive with the monkeys, but that they weren't really - they didn't really have your best interests at heart.They aren't these … They want to replace you. They're not that impressed with the opposable thumbs.'

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Heart

• Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Always
  • Things
  • Structure

• Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Law

• All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Law
  • Novels