Walter Mosley Quotes

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Woman
  • 21st Century
  • Assured

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Day
  • Lucky

• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Different
  • Age
  • Create

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Walking
  • Luck

• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

  

  Walter Mosley
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