Karin Slaughter Quotes

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Building
  • Determination
  • Confused

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Personality
  • Human
  • Him

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Life
  • Character
  • History

• Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Star
  • Company
  • Hollywood

• My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

  

  Kathleen Quinlan
  • Work
  • Garden

• Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Music
  • Important

• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Together
  • Single