Sue Grafton Quotes

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Sue Grafton

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• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Art

• In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

  

  Om Malik
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Past

• Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Friends

• Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Thinking
  • Money

• On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Past
  • Education
  • Dark

• Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • People
  • Thinking

• Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

  

  Frank A. Clark
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Habit

• Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Magic

• So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• I haven't seen Johnson enough in the past to know, but he's a guy who's fought all these years, 16 years, finally gets a title, he's fighting for his biggest payday, he's still fighting back in occasional flurries, just as Jimmy Garcia did when he fought Gabe Ruelas. So he was still fighting back, Every time he went back to the corner he seemed to be going slower and slower. In fact I did mention after the eighth, ninth round that he sorta wobbled onto his stool. So the signs were there and it's in the hands of the referee.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Past

• Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Today

• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Business

• To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Insurance
  • Doctors
  • Complain

• I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Past