Sue Grafton Quotes

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

Sue Grafton

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• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • Business
  • Care
  • Greatest

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • States

• If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Children

• You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Talking
  • Social Media

• Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Women
  • Honor
  • Honorable

• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Job
  • Hand

• Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World

• You cut your life down for spite!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life

• I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • World
  • Education
  • Forever

• Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • People
  • Time
  • Alone

• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Military
  • November

• Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Character

• We incorporate a lot of natural ingredients into our Glossier products, like sweet almond oil, which is great at getting moisture deep into the skin.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Sweet

• I've played a lot of jerks, actually - my daughter seems to think there's a trend there, but I'm not so sure!

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Daughter

• I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Up
  • Food

• There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're dumb for watching one over the other. I just let it go. I don't have to declare a fatwa on any of these things. I've gotten over some of my elitism.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • Dumb

• I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People

• Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Air
  • Drink