H. Russell Wakefield Quotes

I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.

H. Russell Wakefield

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Brave
  • Be Brave

• My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • School
  • Parents
  • Me

• It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• I have no political aspirations. That's it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Political
  • Aspirations

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Art
  • True
  • Happy

• Sloan American colleague artist who started his art by making etchings, c. 1920 not having been abroad in contrary to Hopper himself, has seen these things with a truer and fresher eye than most.. .The hard early training has given to Sloan a facility and a power of invention that the pure painter seldom achieves.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Art
  • Power
  • American

• They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

  

  William Cowper
  • Judging
  • Poet
  • Birth

• Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Death
  • Pain
  • End

• I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.

  

  H. Russell Wakefield
  • Art
  • Story
  • Dying