Ian Kinsler Quotes

The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .

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• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Political
  • Worry
  • Tools

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Girl
  • Competition
  • Australia

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • People
  • Trying
  • Jesus

• Kafka taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. ... He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Distance

• I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.

  

  Crescent Dragonwagon
  • Fall
  • Decision

• The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hand
  • Sin
  • Crime

• The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .

  

  Ian Kinsler
  • Home
  • Power
  • Running