Sue Grafton Quotes

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Sue Grafton

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• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Promise
  • Something

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Marriage
  • Dialogue
  • Final

• I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Politics
  • Integrity

• My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

  

  Karl Popper
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Values
  • Material Things
  • Erroneous

• There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • Age
  • Rain

• Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

  

  Frei Otto
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.

  

  Max von Essen

• If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Song
  • Freedom
  • Candy

• Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

  

  Dave McClure

• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • City
  • Chicago

• Chase your passion, not your pension.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Passion

• At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Safety

• We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

  

  Luke Scott
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Gun

• To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

  

  William Osler
  • Ignorance
  • Beats
  • Wiser

• No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Spirit
  • Management
  • Reflection

• grief is an illness I can't recover from.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Grief
  • Illness