Sue Grafton Quotes

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

Sue Grafton

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• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • Admit

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Why
  • May
  • Jesus

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Growing

• I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

  

  Dominic West

• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Time

• My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Believe
  • May
  • Hope

• When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

  

  Miguel
  • Song
  • Perspective

• I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • American

• I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, 'Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.'

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • True

• On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Dying

• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Travel
  • Dying
  • Comfort

• As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Way
  • Support

• You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Dying